The Grand Inquisitor's Manual: A History of Terror in the Name of God

The Grand Inquisitor's Manual by nationally bestselling author Jonathan Kirsch is a provocative popular history of the Inquisition, the 12th century reign of church-sanctioned terror. Ranging from the Knights Templar to the first Protestants, from Joan of Arc to Galileo, The Grand Inquisitor's Manual is a fascinating and sobering study of the torture and murder of hundreds of thousands of "heretics" in God's name--the original blueprints for persecution originally drafted in the Middle Ages but followed for centuries afterwards, up to and including the "advanced interrogation methods" recently employed at Guantanamo Bay.

• | Author: Jonathan Kirsch
• | Publisher: HarperOne
• | Publication Date: Sep 01, 2009
• | Number of Pages: 304 pages
• | Binding: Paperback or Softback
• | ISBN-10: 0061732761
• | ISBN-13: 9780061732768