Flesh Inferno : Atrocities of Torquemada and the Spanish Inquisition. (The Blood History Series)

Rating:
Summary: Read both sides, please
Review:

If you want to read both sides of the Spanish Inquisition,
(yes, there were some "pros" as well as "cons"), two excellent
books are "Characters of the Inquisition" by William T. Walsh,
and "Inquisition" by Edward Peters.

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The Peters book is especially insightful (and delightful) because
in the first half of the book he gives balanced history of the various
inquisitions, and in the second half gives the history of how the history
was exaggerated and falsified into our popular view of the Inquisition
in the English speaking world.

Rating:
Summary: Sensational lies pandering to prurience....
Review: Mr. Whitechapel has written several books on atrocities and serial killers. He obviously has an unhealthy interest in pain and torture. This is a book written to pander to that kind of prurience.

There has been a great deal of negative press given to the Inquisition over the centuries, most of which was motivated by religious or political prejudice. As a result there is a large body of literature that misrepresents the facts. This book is just a rehash of these allegations done uncritically. There are much better works by Peters and Kamen among others who used modern historical methods which created books that are truly academic and which demonstrate the serious flaws in many previous works done on this subject.

If I could, I would give it "Zero" stars. Pass this one by. It is not worth the money.