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Title: The Spanish Inquisition based on the EDICT OF FAITH
Review: Don't be carried away by emotion or the ecstacy of religious zeal when reading about the Inquisition. It was real! Check the bibliography. Other reviewers totally overlooked in the book the significance of the EDICT OF FAITH quoted by the author (not of his making). Two other works should be read before criticizing this one; THE SPANIARDS, by Americo Castro (search under the author's name), and THE MALLEUS MALLIFICARUM, found by title. I recommend prospective readers read the reviews of these works first, and then decide if Mr. Roth's descriptions are extreme. A less direct method would be to read THE CAPTAIN FROM CASTILE (see the review in amazon.com), a novel based on fact, but with a fictitious cast of characters and the expected amount of fantasy. History poses a problem because it can inflame the mind unless one respects that what is past may no longer be true, at least in the same sense.
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