The Medieval Church · 1484, expanded 1488 and 1498
The Instructions of the Spanish Inquisition
Tomás de Torquemada · 1420–1498
What it is
The operating rules of the Spanish Inquisition: how to publish an edict of grace, take denunciations, sequester property, and conduct an auto-da-fé.
Why it lasted
Catalogued because it must be known: the bureaucratic machinery of a persecution aimed principally at Jewish and Muslim converts and their descendants.
Where to read it
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