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Title: A Poor Read
Review: This book spent so much time trying to minimize the impacts of the Inquisition that, grasping for facts, left the prose stiff and dry. Perhaps like the arguments the author made, also stiff, dry and strained.The issue is not how many died and that the prison conditions were not bad compared to regular felons. Kamen misses the point. The Inquisition did not target felons but, to use an old phrase, those who marched to a different drum.That is the real tragedy of the Inquisition. It stifled thought... and perhaps silenced many who would have contributed much to Spanish political thought and culture.
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