THE INQUISITIONS: YES, MORE THAN ONE!

COURSE LEADERS: Dr. Walt Meyer
MEETS: 5 Thursdays TIME: 1:00pm - 3:00pm
DATES COURSE MEETS: 10/8, 10/15, 10/22, 10/29, 11/5
PRICE: $55.00
LOCATION: 8081 E. Orchard Rd., Greenwood Village, CO 80111 Map
TYPE: Lecture,Discussion,Reading
CATEGORY: HISTORY
DESCRIPTION:

While the Spanish Inquisition may be the best known, there have been plenty of other persecutions of heretics and naysayers since Medieval times. We’ll probe this complex and troubling history with the help of God’s Jury, a book by Cullen Murphy, who has mined a mountain of archival material recently released by the Vatican. With a combination of vivid immediacy and learned analysis Murphy puts a human face on a familiar but little-known piece of our past and argues that only by understanding the Inquisition, with its techniques of surveillance, censorship and interrogation, can we hope to explain the making of the present. This is a repeat of a popular course.

RECOMMENDED READING:
Murphy, Cullen. God’s Jury: The Inquisition and the Making of the Modern World. Mariner, 2013.