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20 Ιουλ 2022 · The tortures of the Spanish Inquisition hold dark lessons for our time. In a disquieting new book, Berkeley scholar Ron E. Hassner makes a devastating argument about torture — one that will challenge both those who favor it and those who oppose it. By Edward Lempinen
The Inquisition began in the fifteenth century and was brutally harsh. When it finally ended in the nineteenth century, its authoritative power had greatly subsided. Below are several torture methods used during the Spanish Inquisition in the New World. The Strappado by Jacques Callot. Public Domain Strappado
The Inquisitionis Hispanicae Artes (Heidelberg, 1567), written by exiled Spanish Protestants, is the first systematic denunciation of the Spanish Inquisition. Its first part is a description of the Inquisition’s methods, making use of the Inquisition’s own instruction manual, which was not publicly known.
15 Απρ 2022 · The massive torture campaign that the Inquisition engaged in during the course of three centuries exacted a heavy price. For Jews and Muslims in the Spanish dominions, the Inquisition signaled the end of an era of cultural flourishing and the onset of expulsions, torment, and death.
Symbols of Terror: Poe’s use of various symbols demonstrates the violence and terror imposed by the Spanish Inquisition: the extinguished white candles demonstrate hopelessness; the grotesque and terrifying pendulum represents the unceasing passage of time; the steaming, glowing pit symbolizes hell; the moving wall represents the closeness of ...
Evidence from the archives of the Spanish Inquisition suggests torture affords no middle ground: one cannot improvise quick, amateurish, and half-hearted torture sessions, motivated by anger and fear, and hope to extract reliable intelligence.
For more recent work, much of which remains dependent on trial documents, see Kimberly Lynn Hosain, “Unraveling the Spanish Inquisition: Inquisitorial Studies in the Twenty-first Century” in History Compass 5/4 (2007), pp. 1280-1293.
