reveal our fear, our desperation, our deepest feelings. Its tests our core and everything we value to the bitter end. Many lives who encounter conflict are threatened and will be safe if they submit defeat. Much was the case for Galileo against the Inquisition. It reveals who we are inside, our fears, exposing oneself to everything. The Orlando mass shooting left many in despair, the nation deeply in fear of the unknown. Our ideals put in question and doubt in the moment of a crisis. The…
Many people all around the world have something in common, and that thing is some sort of belief in a god. Religion is something that comforts people that are in a bad time and gives each of them hope. Today however, it has turned out to be primarily superstitious beliefs which retain its followers based on some sort of fear, usually like an appalling afterlife. The idea of gods derived from people needing answers to what was happening to certain things like the weather and disasters.…
those involved and those observing, it is relevant to detect and understand why these different events took place, and what became of the people who drove these actions. In chapters four, five and six of Deane’s A History of Medieval Heresy and Inquisition, each of these themes respectively was discussed in detail. The first of the previously mentioned concepts that challenged the authority of the Church is wealth. This was problematic as a good Christian was thought to have few worldly…
The torturer's motives at first seem to be to cause death on the prisoner. Later, the torturer seems to enjoy torturing the prisoner in the cruelest possible way. The prisoner seems to be rounded because of his great resourcefulness in finding a way to survive. He thought of the rats when he was about to be taken over by the Pendulum by putting the rancid meat on the leather straps. The character was static because of the way he compiled himself he never seemed to panic. He knew what he had to…
The Spanish Inquisition is a period of time in Spain when the Catholic Church and the king and queen decided to torture innocent civilians to keep people in the church and believing in their faith. They thought they were being godly. The torture methods they used on the innocent people they considered sinners decreased the population of people in Spain trying to save their souls. The Spanish Inquisition happened between the 12th century and the 19th century. It went on for about three hundred…
focus to a completely different geographical area. This case study is in early modern Spain, specifically the Inquisition, and some of the ways they punished people. The Spanish Inquisition was created in 1478 by the Catholic Monarchs, Queen Isabella I of Castile and King Ferdinand II of Aragon. Its main purpose was to maintain the catholic orthodoxy in the realms of Spain. The inquisition was under direct control of the monarchy, and it was abolished in 1834. Because it existed during such a…
A good example of this would be the Medieval Inquisition, which occurred from 1487-1834, mainly in Italy. During the Medieval Inquisition, in an attempt to “purify” the church, priests would travel throughout small Italian towns and call a town meeting. These meetings were labeled as optional, but it would create suspicious towards your loyalty…
Flamenco is a folk art and culture from Iberia, or present day Spain. A genre that has been the musical outlet for the poor and the troubled, Flamenco is not merely a style of music, song or dance from Spain but rather a way of life that influences the daily activities of many individuals. The art of flamenco was intended to be an outward expression of an individual’s most profound emotions and the flamenco way of life. It was never intended to be a technical art performed with enduring…
on how the world is today. Among those from the Medieval Times are the Spanish Inquisition and the Christian Reformation. Even today, people still debate over the actions and motives of these events as to whether or not they were justifiable among other topics. Within these discussions, it is interesting to see comparisons between the two. The popular opinion regarding these two events is that the Spanish Inquisition was entirely wrong while the Protestant Reformation was entirely good. However,…
countries, including Spain, Portugal, North Africa, Syria and more. They are now spread out all over the world, and this is because of the Spanish expulsion inquisition, when all Jews were expelled from Spain. The Jews in Spain experienced a normal life, up until the increase of Anti - Semitism which led to the Expulsion and the Inquisition. The word Sephardic comes from the word Sephrad, which means Spain in Spanish. Sephardic Jews are those who have immigrated from countries in the middle…