101 Questions & Answers on the Crusades and the Inquisition: Disputed Questions

by John Vidmar

Publisher:

Paulist Press

, 2013

Overview

In this helpful question-and-answer handbook, John Vidmar takes an honest look at two controversial events in Christian history: the Crusades and the Inquisition. Vidmar demonstrates how the seemingly different historical events are related, and untangles several misconceptions about each.

Contents

Top Highlights

“The massacre of the Christian population at Melitene has already been mentioned (Q. 2). When the Turks destroyed Edessa in 1144, they killed or enslaved ‘virtually its entire population, then estimated at 47,000.’²¹ Again, Saladin massacred the Christian knights, sometimes personally, after their surrender at the Battle of Hattin in 1187.” (Page 20)

“Torture against heretics was indeed authorized by the pope in the year 1250.” (Page 72)

Product Details

• Title: 101 Questions & Answers on the Crusades and the Inquisition: Disputed Questions
• Author: John Vidmar
• Series: 101 Questions and Answers Series
• Publisher: Paulist Press
• Print Publication Date: 2013
• Logos Release Date: 2014
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Church history › Middle Ages, 600-1500--Miscellanea; Crusades › Miscellanea; Church history › 16th century--Miscellanea; Inquisition › Spain--Miscellanea
• ISBNs: 9780809148042, 9781587680830, 0809148048, 1587680831
• Resource ID: LLS:QSTNSNSWRSNQSTN
• Resource Type: text.monograph.church-history
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-25T20:43:45Z

About John Vidmar

Rev. John C. Vidmar, O.P. is an associate professor of theology at Providence College, Rhode Island where he also serves as provincial archivist and teaches history. Prior to his work at Providence, he served as associate professor, academic dean, acting president and prior teaching history for 15 years at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington DC. He also taught history at Ohio Dominican University.