Inquisition

There were groups and individuals outside the Church that opposed Church doctrine and were judged by the Inquisition to be burned at the stake. Huss, Savonarola are a couple of named individuals that spoke out against the Church on auricular confession, purgatory, pilgrimages, worship of saints, relics. Both Huss and Savonarola were judged to be heretics and…

I, the worst of all Twenty first century, it is probably the best time for humans to live in. Now, we have curable diseases, technology that helps us in our everyday life and our living expectation is close to 80 years old. It sounds like we’ve accomplish a lot as humans beings, however, there’s still something that does not let us advance and become a unified society free of racism and sex stereotypes, the male gaze. Gay people and for the most part women, still the most affected with this…

fields such as astronomy, mathematics, and philosophy, Galileo Galilei is widely known as one of the key individuals of the Renaissance era’s Scientific Revolution, What many people do not know, however, is that Galileo was a victim of the Roman Inquisition. The documents of this trial, named “From the Later-Trial Documents (1632-33)”, were requested to be recorded by His Holiness Pope Urban VIII, and written mostly by the Holy Order. Galileo may have also written, or at least dictated, portions…

Case II: Jacqueline den Carot (1319, France): den Carot’s case was tried under the Church’s Inquisition. The Church sought to prosecute Jacqueline den Carot. The woman in question is brought in “to answer charges of heresy. She was also accused of witchcraft…” The defendant is alleged to have stated that “There will never be another world but this one, and men and women who have died will never rise again.” These sentiments are reinforced by the testimony of multiple witnesses. den Carot…

Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Pit and the Pendulum” demonstrates an arabesque look into the human psyche.The story is about the torments endured by a prisoner of the Spanish Inquisition, while the narrator describes being held captive and tortured. Much like Poe’s other works, the essence of fear in the “The Pit and the Pendulum” stems from the use of literary devices such as bomphiologia, enargia, and foreshadowing. The story is especially effective at inspiring fear in the reader because of its…

The many events that occur in the story all build the suspense in the story and ask questions such as: What will happen to the prisoner? Will the pendulum kill him? How will he escape the traps of the Inquisition? The suspense also drops suddenly during the story as when the prisoner finds that his prison is lit, however, the suspense jolts to the top immediately when he discovers he has succumbed to another trap set for him, consequently being a large swinging…

been heavily effected by Christianity as can be seen in a plethora of college campuses across the country. Together with its origin and basic conflicts over beliefs and followers, through its spread across Europe, the dark ages and period of inquisition, persecution of non-believers, crusades against the "holy land" and into its much tempered existence in the modern day civilized cultures it can be said that Christianity has played a decisive role in shaping the course of history for better…

also controlled and influenced by the Inquisition. The Catholic Church made Junipero believed that the only way to save others from the eternal flames of hell was by making them renounce to their gods and immoral ways. He thought that by drastically changing…

From start to finish, the play Hamlet contains varying degrees of conflicts and dilemmas. These conflicts range from the external combat between Denmark and Norway, to Hamlet’s inner turmoil over avenging his father 's death by killing Claudius. Although religion plays a supporting role to the play, it still contains conflict between religious views. Throughout Hamlet, Shakespeare offers both Protestant and Catholic concepts, yet the play should be considered primarily Catholic for four reasons.…

Two courses of action, it was argued, were required. First, crypto-Judaism could only be overcome by the introduction of an Inquisition; second, Jewish influence over the conversos could only be overcome by their expulsion. These ideas, adumbrated in works such as Alonso de Espina's Fortalitium Fidei, continued to gain ground, and on 27 September 1480 the Catholic Monarchs appointed Inquisitors in Castile who began their work in Seville shortly after (1481). Conversos, often subjected to torture…