The Inquisition: The Hammer of Heresy

This is a good book. I found what I expected from a book of less than 250 pages, an atractive overview of the Inquisition's history. Here you read the not very noble beginnings of the Franciscans and Domenicans orders, the early history with names like Bernard Gui and later the famous, rather infamous, Spanish Inquisition and Thomas de Torquemada. If there is something we maybe all know about Spain, that is the Inquisition that lasted for hundred of years, a ruthless institution that left hundreds of deads and a country submerge in the ignorance where the only knowledge was divine revelation. It's a real shame what happened and the way many people died, sometimes in shows known as "auto de fe". The book cover the whole inquisition in Europe, is very well organized, with a refreshing conclusion, index and references.