Description
About the Author
Hubert Wolf is Professor of Ecclesiastical History at the University of Muenster in Germany, and has been awarded a number or prizes, including the Leibniz Prize of the German Research Foundation (DFG), the Communicator Prize, and the Gutenberg Prize. An internationally renowned scholar of the history of the papacy, his other books include Pope and Devil: The Vatican's Archives and the Third Reich.
Reviews
a masterly telling of a 19th-century scandalanalysed in a consummate way by Hubert Wolf * Metro, Iain Pears *
Wolf's absorbing unravelling of the Inquisition trial convincingly recovers a lost world of rancidly overheated religiosity, rendered toxic by the force of a monstrous ego. It also opens a disturbing window on a closed ecclesiastical establishment in which unquestioning support for authority might excuse almost anything. To that extent, it can stand as a salutary tract for the times. * Guardian *
astonishing story * History Today *
an extraordinary and fascinating book * New Shiny Books *
microhistory at its best * Tablet *
It has taken Hubert Wolf's... skill as a historian to retell their story and let his readers contemplate a moving case study of the crimes, follies and tragedies of humankind. * Literary Review *
Wolf has not only provided us with a fascinating narrative that is compulsive reading, but also with an illuminating insight into the high politics of the papacy in one of the most crucial periods in its history. * English Historical Review *
Makes for fairly amazing reading ... Wolf has not held anything back. The result is an account that reads a bit like a crime novel. * Chris Clark, University of Cambridge *
an extremely intriguing retelling of events, and Wolf's highly structured narrative unpicks the trial in meticulous detail. He assesses the characters with unbiased opinion and does not stray into speculation or theory, using direct transcriptions from the trial to leave it up to the reader to form their own judgement ... the story is told expertly, and Wolf deals with the diverse layers of intrigue in a systematic yet compelling style. * Ms Sara Charles, Reviews in History *
Book Information
ISBN 9780198732198
Author Hubert Wolf
Format Hardback
Page Count 496
Imprint Oxford University Press
Publisher Oxford University Press
Weight(grams) 854g
Dimensions(mm) 240mm * 162mm * 31mm