Includes bibliographical references (pages 286-295) and index.
Standard operating procedure : the paper trail -- A stake in the ground : the medieval inquisition -- Queen of torments : the Spanish inquisition -- The Satanic device : the Roman inquisition -- The ends of the earth : the global inquisition -- War on error : the secular inquisition -- With God on our side : the inquisition and the modern world.
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Tracing the legacy of the Inquisition and its techniques of surveillance, censorship, and interrogation, journalist Cullen Murphy argues that not only did its offices survive into the twentieth century, but in the modern world its spirit is more influential than ever.