Evil Just Is
Diarmaid MacCulloch: The Italian Inquisition, 13 May 2010
The Italian Inquisition
by Christopher Black.
Yale, 330 pp., £35, November 2009,978 0 300 11706 6 Show More
by Christopher Black.
Yale, 330 pp., £35, November 2009,
“... canes, ‘hounds of the Lord’. The other major grouping among the friars, the followers of Francis, also staffed inquisitions but, as Black points out, Franciscans rapidly lost their already minority share of the inquisitor market during the 16th century. So there were inquisitions long before there was the Inquisition. And in fact there never was ... ”