Books by Henry Charles Lea

The Spanish Inquisition was one of the most feared institutions in Western history. Set up by the Roman Catholic church to suppress heresy it operated in France, Italy, Spain and the Holy Roman Empire and was later extended to the Americas. This edition includes the scarce volume on the inquisition in the Spanish dependencies.

Volume 3 of this three-volume 1888 publication by the influential American historian Henry Charles Lea focuses on the Inquisition's impact on scholarship and intellectual life, on faith and civic culture, and on religious movements. He also argues that the Inquisition stimulated growing belief in sorcery and witchcraft.

Volume 2 of this three-volume 1888 publication by the influential American historian Henry Charles Lea explores the Inquisition in France, Iberia, Italy, Bohemia and Germany. Lea describes how the Inquisition met with resistance in Paris and Italy, how it was absent from Portugal, and how it persecuted the Hussites.

Volume 1 of this influential three-volume 1888 publication explores the background to the Inquisition. It gives a general account of the Catholic Church in the twelfth century, describes the events that prompted the Church to set up the Inquisition, and explains the Inquisition's organization and processes.