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TheSpanishInquisition

Recommended Reading:

Walsh, CharactersoftheInquisition, TheLastCrusader, PhilipIIs

, Inquisition

William Thoma

Edward PetersHenry Kamen, TheSpanishInquisition:AHistoricalRevision

The two clubs: Crusades/1204?/the actions of individual men

The Inquist The Inquisition

e of St. John

ion: The problem with the expression

Plato, Romans, Moses (Golden Calf/Beelphegor), Corinthians, Epistl

um and the heretic

reat of heresy;

The first millenni

understanding the mind of medieval man and the th

the medieval Church and State

the divide between the medieval and the moderm

DIEVT E ALINQUISITION

thars? (Manichaean?)

ty/ the popular reaction

HEM

Who were the Ca

Their peculiar beliefs/their effect on socie

ves

Pope Gregory IX

The Dominicans/dangerous work/their moti

)Bernard Gui/Nicholas Eymeric (in Aragon

i

How did the Medieval Inquisition operate?

ce/witnesses (anonymity)/boniver

cent IV, Alexander IV, Clement IV)

period of gra

torture (Inno

citramembridiminutiematmortispericulum

The medieval inquisition came of age in the glorious 13 thCentury, the age that gavethe world Thomas Aquinas, Dante, and Giotto. It protected Christendom from the

social and political chaos of heresy and it saved countless souls from damnation.

T NSPAIN

storys great

HEINQUISITIONI

--Understanding Spain

cia/the C quering fe/one of hi

resurgent/theConversos

--Conviven ross recon /political stri

ella/Grenada

how t

marriages: Ferdinand and Isab

he conversos(and themoriscos) came to be

Spains toleration of her Jews

Usury, the slave trade, social separateness, Talmudism

Civil wars/pogroms/mass Baptism/ Debate at TortosaThe growth and prosperity of the Conversoclass: intermarriage,

ce, clergy, nobility, racial pride (arrogance), the Judaizer

ting/Segovia 1474

finan

h/street fig

itsinceraedevotionis(shelved for 2 years/Ortranto)

a new baptism

Sixtus IV :Exig

lo, San Martin

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Pope

Moril

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TomsdeTorquemada:To the Inquisition, guided by Gui and Eymeric, he gave aformal structure of careful procedures, checks, and balances. As a result, the

Inquisition in Spain was far more attentive to the rights of the accused than any

other court in Europe and represented nothing less than a significant improvement

in the practice of justice in the West. Many of the practices that we take for granted

today in the judging of criminal guilt or innocence first find expression in the systemdevised by Fray Tomas Torquemada. Where instances of cruelty, vengeance, and

persecution surface in the first years of the Spanish Inquisition, they are in violation

f Torquemadas rules, not because of them. Further reforms took place under theo

Franciscan Francisco Ximenes de Cisneros.

The numbers: 30005000 executed over three centuries (abolished 1834)

CLEARINGUPTHERECORD

nts? Jews? Muslims?

de f/the sanbenito

Protesta

autoThe

r)TortureThe quemadero(quema

The prisons

Church

Harm to the economy?

An act of the civil government or of the

The Church: sole executor of heretics?

Some effects of the Inquisition: united to defend Christendom against the

urk/Spain spared the civil wars of the 17thCentury/no witch trials in Spain/the

ross to the New World

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