📚 The Inquisition

Tribunals of belief: procedure, victims, politics, and the still-contested tally the records allow.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject inquisition in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	A history of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages	Henry Charles Lea	1887	32
	Human nature in politics	Graham Wallas	1908	29
	The adventures of Signor Gaudentio di Lucca	Simon Berington	1737	25
	História da origem e estabelecimento da inquisição em Portugal	Alexandre Herculano	1852	24
	The Spanish Inquisition	Henry Kamen	1965	22
	A history of the Inquisition of Spain	Henry Charles Lea	1906	17
	A history of the Marranos	Cecil Roth	1932	12
	Episódios dramáticos da inquisição portuguesa	António Baião	1919	9
	The Inquisition	Coulton, G. G.	1929	8
	The Spanish Inquisition	Eleanor Burford	1967	8
	The Goa inquisition	Anant Kakba Priolkar	1961	7
	Inquisition	Toby Green	2007	7
	Lettres à un gentilhomme russe.	Joseph de Maistre	1830	6
	The life of Cardinal Ximenez	Karl Joseph von Hefele	1860	6
	Documents pour servir à l'histoire de l'Inquisition dans le Languedoc	C. Douais	1900	6
	Inquisition.	E. Vacandard	1908	6
	Inquisición sobre la Inquisición	Alfonso Junco	1933	6
	The Rise of the Spanish Inquistition	Eleanor Burford	1959	6
	Konrad von Marburg und die Inquisition in Deutschland	Balthasar Kaltner	1882	5
	Os ratos da Inquisição	António Serrão de Crasto	1883	5
	Men and women of the Italian reformation	Christopher Hare	1910	5
	The Spanish inquisition	Arthur Stanley Turberville	1932	5
	The Chuetas of Majorca	Baruch Braunstein	1936	5
	Between Court And Confessional The Politics Of Spanish Inquisitors	Kimberly Lynn	2013	5
	Invoking the Akelarre	Emma Wilby	2019	5
	The slaughter-house, or, A brief description of the Spanish Inquisition	James Salgado	1683	4
	The history of the inquisition	Philippus van Limborch	1731	4
	Discours pathétique au sujet des calamités présentes, arrivées en Portugal	Francisco Xavier de Oliveira	1756	4
	Histoire de l'inquisition de Goa	Gabriel Dellon	1815	4
	Histoire critique de l'Inquisition d'Espagne	Juan Antonio Llorente	1817	4

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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