The Atheist's Bible: The Most Dangerous Book That Never Existed

by Georges Minois

Book Overview

A comprehensive biography of the Treatise of the Three Impostors, a controversial nonexistent medieval book.

Like a lot of good stories, this one begins with a rumor: in 1239, Pope Gregory IX accused Frederick II, the Holy Roman Emperor, of heresy. Without disclosing evidence of any kind, Gregory announced that Frederick had written a supremely blasphemous book-De tribus impostoribus, or the Treatise of the Three...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226821064
• ISBN13: 9780226821061
• Release Date: October 2022
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"