The Inquisition's Inquisitor
Kagan, Richard L Writing in 1868, the Philadelphia publisher-cum-historian Henry Charles Lea informed a friend, "I am trying to collect the materials for a history of the Inquisition." The collecting of these materials-books, manuscripts, and copies of thousands of pages of documents housed in musty European archives and libraries-would occupy Lea (1825-1909) for the remainder of his life. It also led to publication of A History of the Inquisition of the Middl...