Synopses & Reviews
-- The In World History series is a unique combination of biography and history.
-- Each title in the series depicts a significant, fascinating historical event or era in dramatic detail while featuring a person of that event or era.
Synopsis
Readers will follow as Richard Worth explores the Spanish Inquisition, an effort by the Catholic church to seek out and punish heretics who went against the teachings of Christianity. Under the direction of Inquisitor-General Tomas de Torquemada, inquisitors often worked in secret and misused their power. Many suspects were tortured, and those who refused to change their beliefs were sentenced to be burned at the stake.