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"Gretchen Starr-LeBeaus Seven Myths of the Spanish Inquisition provides an excellent introduction to Habsburg Spains most reviled and misunderstood institution. Drawn from archival sources and modern scholarship, this concise study presents the long and tortured history of the Spanish Inquisition in an accessible format for readers interested in the intersection of religion and jurisprudence. Addressing common misconceptions about the procedures, effectiveness, and reach of the Inquisition, this work argues convincingly for an updated assessment encompassing change over time and variations...

On June 11, 1485, in the pilgrimage town of Guadalupe, the Holy Office of the Inquisition executed Alonso de Paredes--a converted Jew who posed an economic and political threat to the town's powerful friars--as a heretic. Wedding engrossing narratives of Paredes and other figures with astute historical analysis, this finely wrought study reconsiders the relationship between religious identity and political authority in late-Medieval and early-modern Spain.

Gretchen Starr-LeBeau concentrates on the Inquisition's handling of conversos (converted Jews and their descendants) in...

The first comparative analysis of Catholic inquisitions and Calvinist consistories from the fifteenth to eighteenth centuries, both institutions with critical roles in the social upheaval of the Reformation. This volume offers a new framework for analysing religious reform and social discipline in the early modern world.