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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.
25 Σεπ 2018 · Rawlings 2006 provides a balanced, up-to-date summary. Kamen 1985 incorporates the new social history research, whereas Kamen 2014 controversially downplays the overall importance of the tribunals on Spanish life. Pérez 2005 relies on outdated and exclusively Spanish and French sources.
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.
2 The Spanish Inquisition (officially known at the time as the Holy Office of the Inquisition) was an ecclesiastical court, under the indirect control of the state, in charge of prosecuting “heretics”—in this case baptized Christians who did not fully accept the teachings of the Catholic Church. Its jurisdiction extended over Spain ...
This chapter outlines the three myths about the Spanish Inquisition: the Inquisition tortured recklessly, the Inquisition used torture to punish, and the Inquisition extracted confessions of guilt. It shows that the primary goal of inquisitorial torture was interrogational, and not confessional as is often falsely believed.
In England, views of the Inquisition were influenced not only by the considerable literature available but also by the belief that serious wrongs were perpetrated daily in Spain against English merchants and sailors.
The most frequent, in the last period, is book censure (15% of the items), followed by studies on the image of inquisition in historiography and literature (12%), works on the establishment or the abolition of the court (11%), on new-christians (11%), on specialized law or archive issues (11%).
