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Title: long winded, fact deprived
Review: Reads like an inquisitors manual but unfortunately only repeats tired charges with the same scant evidence and thin standards that the original inquisitors used in their investigations. In the first third of the book only one piece of "solid" evidence is brought forth linking the anabaptist and the manichee. This fact being the common usage of the idea that "Christ passed through the Virgin Mother as water through a pipe." This is about as conclusive as asserting someone is from Alabama on the basis of saying "kit and kaboodle." The book is certainly fun to read, fans of Knox love it, it is full of inuendo and characterizations. "Heretics" meet in "nests" and the "virus" of protestanism spreads throughout the land. Obviously this is antimodernist hoopla which makes fun reading for those interested in Catholic historical narratives before the rise of sound scholarship. -JL
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