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The Inquisition - Baigent, Michael, and Leigh, Richard
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After the Albigensian Crusade against the Cathars of south-west France in 1208, a Spanish monk - later canonized as St Dominic - took up the cudgels by establishing a kind of secret police to ferret out heresy - thus began the infamous Inquisition. Baigent and Leigh tell the whole extraordinary story, taking it on into the nineteenth century and showing how after the Doctrine of Papal Infallibility in 1870 the Vatican attempted to establish new authorities that were an intellectual equivalent of the Inquisition. The ...

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The Inquisition 2000, Penguin Books Ltd, London

ISBN-13: 9780140274660

Mass-market paperback

The Inquisition 1999, Viking, London

ISBN-13: 9780670880324

Hardcover