The Spanish Inquisition as an Alienist
Henry Charles Lea
Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Geschichte
Beschreibung
Henry Charles Lea (1825-1909) was an American publisher, civic activist, philanthropist and historian from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. As a historian of medieval Europe, he wrote extensively on the institutional and legal history of the Catholic Church. His active writing career on historical subjects spannedmore than fifty years, during which he published ten books and numerous articles. He wrote a series of books on the Inquisition, beginning with
A History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages (1888) and continuing with
A History of the Inquisition of Spain (1906-1907) and
The Inquisition in the Spanish Dependencies (1908). He also collected materials related to witchcraft beliefs, the prosecution of witches by the Inquisition, and contemporary reports of witchcraft.
Henry Charles Lea’s essay
The Spanish Inquisition as an Alienist was published in the magazine
Popular Science Monthly in July 1893.
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Benito Ferrer, Edizioni Aurora Boreale, Theology, Franciscans, Inquisition, Domingo Diaz, Madrid, Christianism, Diego Vela, Philip IV, René Perrault, Holy Office, United States, Antichrist, Nicola Bizzi, Eretics, Pennsylvania, Auto da fé, Philadelphia, Gabriel de Guevara, Spain, Juan Burgalez Diaz, Dominicans, Catholic Church, Henry Charles Lea, The Spanish Inquisition as an Alienist, Andrés Pacheco, Popular Science Monthly