Religions, like nations, tend to invent their own histories. It is thus refreshing to have this new, even-handed, thoroughly researched and apparently impartial account of that extraordinary upheaval of Western Christendom which divided Europe for 400 years. Motives are exposed, myths are exploded. News to me that Spain under the Inquisition had fewer executions for religious deviance than any other nation. And at last I begin to understand the doctrine of predestination.
(Michael Fitzgerald-Lombard - bwl 24 June 2004 ) |
