Download or read book The Hammer of the Inquisitors written by Alan Friedlander and published by Cultures, Beliefs and Traditio. This book was released on 2000 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This biography of a controversial religious figure of the fourteenth century offers material that illuminates critical issues in the social, political and spiritual transformations - the repression of heresy, the rise of national monarchies - at the decline of the Middle Ages.