{"product_id":"2940012399717","title":"The Medieval Inquisition: A Study in Religious Persecution","description":"This book was published originally in 1918 in London for, The Rationalist Press Association, Limited.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Publisher has copy-edited this book to improve the formatting, style and accuracy of the text to make it readable. This did not involve changing the substance of the text.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExcerpt:\u003cbr\u003eTo what extent the spirit of persecutionis sanctioned by the New Testament is not very easy to determine. Giving all due wweight to its gentler precepts, it is unhappily true that passages which reflect more than a tinge of the temper of intolerance are to be found with some frequency in the New Testament, and very many injunctions to extreme severity in the Old. It was inevitable that in rude ages the latter should exert a more potent influence on human conduct than the former, because they harmonize more completely with the existing tendencies of human nature.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents:\u003cbr\u003eI The Moral Condition of the Medieval Church\u003cbr\u003eSimony, Clerical Celibacy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eII A Crusade Against Christians\u003cbr\u003eReligious Persecution\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIII The Founding, Constitution, and Practice of the Inquisition\u003cbr\u003eThe Inquisitorial Method, Evidence, The Defense, Sentence, Confiscation, Relaxation and the Stake\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIV How the Inquisition Overran Europe\u003cbr\u003eThe South of France, Northern France, Aragon and Castile, Italy, Bosnia, Germany, Bohemia, The Netherlands, The Spiritual Franciscans\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eV Miscellaneous Activities\u003cbr\u003ePolitical Heresy, The Templars, Joan of Arc, Sorcery and Magic, Intellect and Faith, Censorship of Books, The Greek Church, Indulgences and Simony\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVI The Gentle Art of Whitewashing\u003cbr\u003eBibliography","brand":"Digital Text Publishing Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47078881558768,"sku":"2940012399717","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940012399717_p0.jpg?v=1763568566","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940012399717","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}