Joseph Pérez is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Bordeaux and Honorary Director of the Velazquez Museum in Madrid. His previous books include a history of Spain under Philip II and biographies of Ferdinand and Isabella and Emperor Charles V. Janet Lloyd has translated more than fifty books and was twice awarded the Scott Moncrieff prize for best translation of a full-length French work of literary merit and general interest.
"A scholarly and vivid recasting of a painful era in which 32,000
innocent people went to the stake, is a salutary reminder of the
potential savagery occasioned by religion."—John Cornwell, Sunday
Times
Selected for AAUP Books for Public and Secondary School Libraries,
2006
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