Spanish Inquisition

impact 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.…

Mad for God, written by Sara Tilghman Nalle, is a microhistory about the life of a Spanish wool carder, his sacrilegious statements and beliefs, and his trial at the hands of the Inquisition in 16th century Spain. Nalle dissects this time period with a revisionist approach; she attempts a historical reconstruction and succeeds in humanizing the actions of certain clergy and officers of the Holy Catholic Church. By including personal details about the thought process and decision making of lead…

King Ferdinand and Queen Elizabeth of Spain established had the intention to initiate an Inquisition, meaning a period of time to question or investigate, to prolong Catholicism and beliefs in the Spaniard kingdom. It’s purpose was to manage Catholic faith within any Spaniard kingdom. A number of reasons have been indicted for creating the movement. Some include: “To establish political and religious unity”, “To weaken local political opposition to the Catholic Monarchs”, “To do away with…

The Guelphs and Ghibellines were two different political parties in Italy and Germany during the Middle Ages. Guelph is derived from “Welf”, a dynasty of Bavarian German dukes who competed for the imperial throne in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Ghibelline is derived from Waiblingen, the Swabian Hohenstaufen dukes who were the Guelphs’ opponents. The Guelph party was sympathetic towards the papacy and the Ghibelline party was sympathetic towards the Holy Roman Emperor. The animosity…

Spain’s Ethnic Cleansing (2009) discusses the mass expulsion of Moriscos across the country of Spain. Moriscos were previous followers of the Muslim faith that were forced to convert to Christianity by Spanish rulers. Years before Morisccos were coerced into converting to Christianity the Spanish Jews were given an ultimate to convert or leave Spain. In 1502 queen Isabella ordered Muslims in Castile to convert of leave the country as she did to her Jewish subjects. “Muslims of Valencia, Aragon,…

empires, the Portuguese and the Spanish, looked to expand their territories and power while seeking land not only throughout Europe, but also across the Atlantic in the Americas. Both empires commenced their expansions by sending conquistadors to discover and colonize land in the New World. Once they arrived, both the Spanish and Portuguese conquistadors, with the help of the native people, began to build colonies, modeling them after their respective homelands. The Spanish and Portuguese…

with settlers and landowners. The crown often sided with secular clergy. The seculars and crown undid work of regulars. The Office of Inquisition was set up on 1571 to counter unchristian work. It range from dealing with heresy and finally…

Tim Carter ENGL 1302 George Edwards 10 October, 2016 Cheating Death in The Pit and the Pendulum In 1480, Ferdinand II from Aragon and Isabella I of Castile, initiated the mass genocide that is commonly known today as the Spanish Inquisition. These two catholic monarchs decided that anything not catholic needed to be purged from society to live true Christian lives. This resolution then became the foundation for them to sentence people to death for not being catholic or supporting progressive…

in broad historical categories: he was a humanist, except for when he burned Muslim books in order to suppress their text-based philosophy. He was an ecclesiastical reformer, except for his unwillingness to create serious change within the Spanish Inquisition. The contradictions above are created by the focuses of scholarship, as traditional histories attempt to understand (and often, glorify) his character, while revisions focus on his (often suppressive) influences on others. One can identify…

preserving said dominance. The extremes of societal control and the delicate balances of power became a thin layer of ice the people of this time had to learn to walk on. Some examples of this subordination are the Jewish and Muslim bans, the Spanish Inquisition, Jan Hus, and Torquemada’s Burnings. Banning specific groups of people was a well-known and used form of control, and was used in 1492 to establish a firm rule of the Monarchs. Jews were seen as less than Christians, and Muslims seen…