The spanish inquisiton

Ivar the Nut · **Posted:** Mon Jun 27, 2011 3:24 pm

Do you have any good book suggestions on the spanish inquisition?

GKC · **Joined:** Thu Feb 20, 2003 9:22 pm **Posts:** 13073

Ivar the Nut wrote:

Do you have any good book suggestions on the spanish inquisition?

Kamen/THE SPANISH INQUISITION.

If you have a lot of spare reading time, Netanyahu/THE ORIGINS OF THE INQUISITION IN FIFTEENTH CENTURY SPAIN.

GKC

HalJordan · **Posted:** Mon Jun 27, 2011 6:23 pm

Characters of the Inquisition by William Thomas Walsh was a good quick read on the inquisition in general. It mentions Spain but isn't exclusively focused on it.

GKC · **Joined:** Thu Feb 20, 2003 9:22 pm **Posts:** 13073

HalJordan wrote:

Characters of the Inquisition by William Thomas Walsh was a good quick read on the inquisition in general. It mentions Spain but isn't exclusively focused on it.

Peters/INQUISITION is another good overview.

GKC

Obi-Wan Kenobi · **Posted:** Mon Jun 27, 2011 8:03 pm

GKC wrote:

HalJordan wrote:

Characters of the Inquisition by William Thomas Walsh was a good quick read on the inquisition in general. It mentions Spain but isn't exclusively focused on it.

Peters/INQUISITION is another good overview.

GKC

I have read both of these and endorse both recommendations.

St Veronica · **Posted:** Tue Jun 28, 2011 10:12 am

I love Walsh's book on Fatima, didn't realize he'd written other books...I'll have to check that one out, wonder if it's on Kindle? I'll go check that.

SV

lbt · **Joined:** Tue Dec 31, 2002 10:59 am **Posts:** 8067

St Veronica wrote:

I love Walsh's book on Fatima, didn't realize he'd written other books...I'll have to check that one out, wonder if it's on Kindle? I'll go check that.

SV

Thomas Walsh also wrote a book on St. Teresa of Avila, who was persecuted by those in the Spanish Inquisition.

Below is the complete list of his books and the like:

The Mirage of the Many (1910)
Isabella of Spain (1930)
Out of the Whirlwind (novel, 1935)
Philip II (1937)
Shekels (blank-verse play, 1937)
Lyric Poems (1939)
Characters of the Inquisition (1940)
"Gold" (short story)
Babies, not Bullets! (booklet, 1940)
Thirty Pieces of Silver (a play in verse)
Saint Teresa of Ávila (1943)
La actual situatión de España (booklet, 1944)
El casa crucial de España (booklet, 1946)
Our Lady of Fátima (Doubleday, 1947) ISBN 978-0385-028691
The Carmelites of Compiègne (a play in verse)
Saint Peter, the Apostle (1948)

Edward Pothier · **Posted:** Tue Jun 28, 2011 4:20 pm

Obi-Wan Kenobi wrote:

GKC wrote:

HalJordan wrote:

Characters of the Inquisition by William Thomas Walsh was a good quick read on the inquisition in general. It mentions Spain but isn't exclusively focused on it.

Peters/INQUISITION is another good overview.

GKC

I have read both of these and endorse both recommendations.

No one expects a good book on the Spanish Inquisition!

Just sit down in a comfy chair and read it.

Edward Pothier

Obi-Wan Kenobi · **Posted:** Tue Jun 28, 2011 4:28 pm

I was wondering how many posts it was going to take before we got a "No one expects the Spanish Inquisition!"

GKC · **Joined:** Thu Feb 20, 2003 9:22 pm **Posts:** 13073

Obi-Wan Kenobi wrote:

I was wondering how many posts it was going to take before we got a "No one expects the Spanish Inquisition!"

No one expects posts on the Spanish Inquisition.

GKC

HalJordan · **Posted:** Tue Jun 28, 2011 5:19 pm

lbt wrote:

St Veronica wrote:

I love Walsh's book on Fatima, didn't realize he'd written other books...I'll have to check that one out, wonder if it's on Kindle? I'll go check that.

SV

Thomas Walsh also wrote a book on St. Teresa of Avila, who was persecuted by those in the Spanish Inquisition.

Below is the complete list of his books and the like:

The Mirage of the Many (1910)
Isabella of Spain (1930)
Out of the Whirlwind (novel, 1935)
Philip II (1937)
Shekels (blank-verse play, 1937)
Lyric Poems (1939)
Characters of the Inquisition (1940)
"Gold" (short story)
Babies, not Bullets! (booklet, 1940)
Thirty Pieces of Silver (a play in verse)
Saint Teresa of Ávila (1943)
La actual situatión de España (booklet, 1944)
El casa crucial de España (booklet, 1946)
Our Lady of Fátima (Doubleday, 1947) ISBN 978-0385-028691
The Carmelites of Compiègne (a play in verse)
Saint Peter, the Apostle (1948)

That biography of Phillip II is awesome but very detailed. Walsh pretty much tells you how many times a day His Majesty went to the bathroom.

Obi-Wan Kenobi · **Posted:** Tue Jun 28, 2011 5:27 pm

TMI! TMI!

St Veronica · **Posted:** Tue Jun 28, 2011 5:45 pm

I just discovered I have another book written by Walsh...Isabella of Spain. I've read it but I forgot who the author was!

I'd like to read about Phillip II but I don't need to know that much detail <G>

SV

GKC · **Joined:** Thu Feb 20, 2003 9:22 pm **Posts:** 13073

Obi-Wan Kenobi wrote:

TMI! TMI!

I'd like to get that one.

GKC

lbt · **Joined:** Tue Dec 31, 2002 10:59 am **Posts:** 8067

Today is the solemnity of Sts. Peter and Paul. I just got another book by William Thomas Walsh. It's titled Peter the Apostle.

I think it would be appropriate for him to comment on the Spanish Inquisition: "No one sees Catholics today burning unbelievers, even in Ireland and Portugal..." So he was trying to write more accurate historical records such as his book Characters of the Inquisition.

cathques · **Posted:** Mon Jan 23, 2012 8:35 pm

The Myth of the Spanish Inquisition by the British Broadcasting Commission can be found on YouTube. For an anti-Catholic organisation (which is funded with taxpayers' money) this doco is very even handed.

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