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9 Ιαν 2023 · The Inquisition was an institution of the Catholic Church in which so-called heretics, who strayed from the church, were persecuted and punished. The Inquisition was also a major tool in the...
This article offers an overview of how the Iberian Inquisitions aspired and attempted to control orthodoxy across their immense empires. However, this did not involve merely crossing the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas, but also the Pacific Ocean and policing the Iberian outposts in Asia, specifically Manila and Goa.
The inquisition quickly turned its attention to ridding the region of people who were not part of the Catholic Church— leading to more than 350 years of ethnic cleansing. Kayla Wolf digs into the persecution and brutality of the Spanish Inquisition.
Instead of interpreting the Inquisition's severe methods according to twentieth-century standards, it is helpful to situate its practice within the historical constraints and theological obligations of the time.
21 Αυγ 2024 · Argues that the Inquisition played a crucial role in the Catholic Reformation, imposing its own members in papal elections, reshaping ecclesiastical hierarchy, defining orthodoxy, controlling information and knowledge, influencing politics and framing daily life.
25 Σεπ 2018 · A religious court established at the request of the Spanish crown to punish apostate converts from Judaism, the institution over the years continually reinvented itself to confront perceived threats to religious orthodoxy, social harmony, and even national security.
As mobile, adaptable bureaucracies, the Iberian Inquisitions were auxil-iary to the imperial, institutional apparatus. Green’s article charts patterns of when and where overseas tribunals were established — patterns that correspond to the shifting centres of commercial and political interest.
