Toward the Inquisition: Nineteenth-Century Fictions of Hysteria

by Benzion Netanyahu

One of the world's foremost scholars in the fields of Spanish and Jewish medieval history, B. Netanyahu revolutionized accepted belief concerning the causes of the Spanish Inquisition in his magisterial volume of 1995, The Origins of the Inquisition. Locating that origin not in the supposed persistence of Judaism among the New Christians but in a concession the kings were forced to make to powerfully anti-Jewish popular sentiment, he radically altered...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801434106
• ISBN13: 9780801434105
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 267 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.2"