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LEADER: 02126cam a2200325 a 4500
001 2008010098
003 DLC
005 20090901090911.0
008 080307s2008 nyuaf b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2008010098
020 $a9780060816995
020 $a0060816996
035 $a(OCoLC)191931946
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn191931946
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC
050 00 $aBT736.15$b.K58 2008
082 00 $a272/.2$222
100 1 $aKirsch, Jonathan,$d1949-
245 14 $aThe grand inquisitor's manual :$ba history of terror in the name of God /$cJonathan Kirsch.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York, NY :$bHarperOne,$cc2008.
300 $a296 p., [8] p. of plates :$bill. (some col.) ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 279-283) and index.
520 $a"The inquisitorial apparatus that was first invented in the Middle Ages remained in operation for the next six hundred years, and it has never been wholly dismantled. As we shall see, an unbroken thread links the friar-inquisitors who set up the rack and the pyre in southern France in the early thirteenth century to the torturers and executioners of Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia in the mid-twentieth century. Nor does the thread stop at Auschwitz or the Gulag; it can be traced through the Salem witch trials in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II, the Hollywood blacklists of the McCarthy era, and even the interrogation cells at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo."--P. 3.
505 0 $aThe Pietà and the pear -- The Cathar kiss -- The hammer of heretics -- Crime and punishment -- The inquisitor's manual -- Purity of blood -- The eternal inquisitor -- American inquisition.
650 0 $aTerror$xReligious aspects$xChristianity$xHistory.
650 0 $aInquisition.
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0813/2008010098.html
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0911/2008010098-b.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0911/2008010098-d.html