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Title: I love this book
Review: I read this book in prep school many moons ago and continue to read to it. It gives an excellent overview of the church and its influence over the populous. It displays during royalist times how the church worked for Ferninand and Isabel and suceeding ancestors of Spanish royality and reduced the role of secular government. The last chapter is riveting "the decline and fall" as it shows how secular government tried to overtake the holy tribunal as royalist rule dwindled because of misappropriations of the Marranos and the birth of new religion known as Islam today. The concept of 'appeasement' is also raised in this chapter which is a basis of the 'puritans' that migrated to the northeast section of North America. It can be inferred that this book was the basis of Adolph Hitler's philosphy with the cleansing of Jews and Protestants as non conformists to the function of the 'holy office'.
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