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God's Jury: The Inquisition and the Making of the Modern World
by Cullen Murphy
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Used Very Good/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0618091564
- ISBN 13
- 9780618091560
- Seller
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Kutztown, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, January 2012. Hardcover . Used Very Good/Good. Dust Jacket has some edge and corner wear, some scuffing, but still intact. Front and back covers have light wear to edges and corners. Spine intact, some wear. Binding is intact. Pages are generally clean with minor edge or corner wear. We carry new and used books in our storefront. We want you to be satisfied with your purchase. Please contact us if you have questions regarding this item.
Synopsis
Established by the Catholic Church in 1231, the Inquisition continued in one form or another for almost seven hundred years. Though associated with the persecution of heretics and Jews — and with burning at the stake — its targets were more numerous and its techniques more ambitious. The Inquisition pioneered surveillance, censorship, and “scientific” interrogation. As time went on, its methods and mindset spread far beyond the Church to become tools of secular persecution. Traveling from freshly opened Vatican archives to the detention camps of Guantánamo to the filing cabinets of the Third Reich, the acclaimed writer Cullen Murphy traces the Inquisition and its legacy, showing that not only did its offices survive into the twentieth century, but in the modern world its spirit is more influential than ever. With the combination of vivid immediacy and learned analysis that characterized his acclaimed Are We Rome? , Murphy puts a human face on a familiar but little-known piece of our past and argues that only by understanding the Inquisition can we hope to explain the making of the present.
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- Bookseller
- Firefly Bookstore LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 360450
- Title
- God's Jury: The Inquisition and the Making of the Modern World
- Author
- Cullen Murphy
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0618091564
- ISBN 13
- 9780618091560
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- January 2012
- Pages
- 320
- Bookseller catalogs
- History/Europe/Medieval & Renaissance;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Firefly Bookstore LLC
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Kutztown, Pennsylvania
About Firefly Bookstore LLC
Located in downtown Kutztown, we are an independently-owned and operated New and Used bookstore. Started in 2012 by two book aficionados, Firefly Bookstore strives to provide the best in diverse products and customer services. In addition to books on almost any subject, Firefly carries a large range of products including cards, bookmarks, audio books, and family tree charts. We carry over 60,000 items in 3000 sq/ft of space.Additionally, we have a large tabletop game selection, including board games, dice and card games, and Role-Playing titles. We have a wide selection of puzzles from Pomegranate and others. We have in stock new, each year, a large collection of current year Calendars with 100s of titles and styles to choose from, always discounted.We buy and trade books and games whenever the store is open, and we are looking for material for every section. Store credit can be used on new and used material. We are interested in large purchases, such as collections and estate sales. We are particularly looking for gaming books, metaphysics, history, cooking, science, Pennsylvania history and children's books.For current news and announcements, find us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/fireflybookstore.We carry new and used books in our storefront. We want you to be satisfied with your purchase. Please contact us if you have questions regarding this itemStore hours are 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. daily.
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