Heaven or Heresy: A History of the Inquisition Thomas F. Madden For many, the Inquisition conjures Gothic images of cloaked figures and barbarous torture chambers. So enmeshed is this view of the Inquisition in popular culture that such scenes play out even in comedies such as Mel Brooks' History of the World and Monty Python's Flying Circus. But is this a fair portrayal?
Oxford, 1583. Giordano Bruno, a radical thinker fleeing the Inquisition, is sent undercover to Oxford to expose a Catholic conspiracy against Queen Elizabeth. But he has his own secret mission at the University, which must remain hidden at all costs.
When a series of hideous murders are committed, Bruno is compelled to investigate. What he finds makes it brutally clear that the Tudor throne itself is at stake...
Only a few scholarly articles among the considerable body of secondary literature published on the Lollard or Wycliffite heresy in the last fifty years have focused on the detection and prosecution of this heretical sect; most students of Lollardy have studied either the Lollards themselves or their writings. This monograph, based upon the author's recent doctoral thesis, is thus the first to examine systematically the detection of late medieval heresy in England. It approaches the subject from the point of view of the hunter, rather than the hunted.
An ancient secret. A lost city. A treasure that could change the world.
In search of a Spanish galleon in the Caribbean, archaeologist Finn Ryan and her partner Lord Billy Pilgrim find evidence of a lost Aztec Codex. The invaluable book created by 15th- century explorer and accused heretic Hernan Cortez is said to reveal the secret location of the lost City of Gold. But they are not alone in their quest.