Spanish heretics lambasted with golden prose

I've just finished edited a great translation of probably the greatest ever work on heterodoxy ever published, at least in the last few centuries. It is Menendez Pelayo's History of the Spanish Heterodox, an account - by turns amusing, impassioned, exciting, suspense-filled and absolutely fascinating - of how the early church in Spain fought off all attempts to derail her divine message.

The author (in further volumes now in preparation) brings the story right through the Inquisition, the Reformation, Counter-Reformation, up to the nineteenth century, but the current volume tracks Spain's Gnostics, Arians, Priscillianists, witches and other nasties from the days of Spain's conversion in Romain times up to the early Middle Ages.

You can find out more about it (and buy the book) at http://menendezpelayo.wordpress.com/ The translator is friend Eladia Gomez-Posthill , who has also translated a beautiful guide to the spiritual life from the Golden Age of Spanish mysticism, Juan de los Angeles' The Loving Struggle.