inquisition

"Raquela yearns to celebrate a Passover seder, but Inquisition-era Spain is a time when Jews must hide their religion. Her clever papa, the best fisherman in town, creates a unique celebration for his family"--Provided by publisher.

A wizard from the Middle Ages wants to eliminate all others to be the one and dominate humanity and the world of the dead. A child who will be a powerful being stands in his way and an old wizard helps the boy escape and survive. In the deepest darkness, in the most desperate moments, magic will set you free. When the last days of the world of magic seem to be approaching ... Dark times put Europe's wizards at great risk. In the name of God, the Inquisition uses the power of the Church to manipulate people's minds and also to start a Witch Hunt that ends up burning innocent lives to death. However, the true clerical purpose is nothing other than to increase the richness of the Church by externting anyone seen as a potential threat. At the same time, a rebellion occurs among the sorcerers of the most respectable clans, when some of them decide to surrender to the practices of evil magic in search of unlimited power. ... a child with supernatural powers is born to change the fate of many lives ... and deaths.

A wizard from the Middle Ages wants to eliminate all others to be the one and dominate humanity and the world of the dead. A child who will be a powerful being stands in his way and an old wizard helps the boy escape and survive. In the deepest darkness, in the most desperate moments, magic will set you free. When the last days of the world of magic seem to be approaching ... Dark times put Europe's wizards at great risk. In the name of God, the Inquisition uses the power of the Church to manipulate people's minds and also to start a Witch Hunt that ends up burning innocent lives to death. However, the true clerical purpose is nothing other than to increase the richness of the Church by externting anyone seen as a potential threat. At the same time, a rebellion occurs among the sorcerers of the most respectable clans, when some of them decide to surrender to the practices of evil magic in search of unlimited power. ... a child with supernatural powers is born to change the fate of many lives ... and deaths.

Isabel Perez is a sixteen-year-old who dreams of writing poetry, love, and being with the young nobleman Diego Altamirano; but in Trujillo, Spain in 1481 such a love is forbidden by the boy's family because Isabel's families are conversos, new Christians, but in the privacy of their home they still practice Judaism--a secret that could destroy them all when the Inquisition reaches Trujillo and they are forced to flee to the uncertain safety of Portugal, and beyond.

A history of the Spanish Inquisition that began in the late fifteenth century and during which nearly 32,000 people were publicly burned at the stake, and its long-term impact on Spain's culture, economy, and intellectual life.

During the Spanish Inquisition, sixteen year old Estrella, brought up a Catholic, discovers her famlily's true Jewish identity, and when thier secret is betrayed by Estrella's best friend the consequences are tragic.

Presents brief narrative poems set in fifteenth-century Spain, when apprentice scribe Ramon witnesses the atrocities of the Inquisitions while Amir, born a Muslim and forced to give up his faith, is taken in by Ramon's family of Jews who were forced to convert to Christianity.

Rescuing a mystic healer who is being violently pursued by a rogue monk in thirteenth-century Provensa, scrappy matchmaker Botille is challenged to protect the entire village against the monks' crusade to burn heretics.

Biography that describes the life of Tomas de Torquemada, the fifteenth-century monk who became the fanatical leader of the Spanish Inquisition.