The term Inquisition (Latin: Inquisitio Haereticae Pravitatis Sanctum Officium) refers broadly to a number of historical movements surrounding the suppression of heresy by the Roman Catholic Church. There were four major movements, starting with the Medieval Inquisition in 1184 and ending with the Spanish Inquisition in 1834. Inquisition - Origin. The Inquisition was an institution within the Roman Catholic Church, charged with the eradication of heresies. Heresies (from Greek haeresis, ...

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Inquisition

A Roman Catholic tribunal that conducted ecclesiastical legal proceedings to identify and punish heretics. The first Inquisition was established in 1229.

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Inquisition

A Roman Catholic tribunal that conducted ecclesiastical legal proceedings to identify and punish heretics. The first Inquisition was established in 1229.

(See also: Inquisition, New Age Spirituality, Body Mind and Soul)

There were four Inquisitions; in chronological order, they were the Medieval Inquisition, the Spanish Inquisition, the Portuguese Inquisition and the Roman Inquisition. One would however be incorrect to presume that these were totally unrelated to each other and that the inquisition was limited to these discrete events... Inquisition - Medieval Inquisition. Main a ...

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The Inquisition was introduced in Portugal by John III in 1536, after hesitations from Rome. In 1515, Manuel I had asked for the installation of the Inquisition, but it was instituted only after the accession of John III. As in Spain, the Inquisition was put under the authority of the King. The Grand Inquisitor, or General Inquisitor, was named by the Pope after the king's appointment and always from within the royal family. The Grand Inquisitor would later nominate other inquisitors. In Portugal, the first Grand Inquisitor was Cardinal Henr ...

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John III of Portugal, John III of Portugal - Early Life, John III of Portugal - Early Reign, John III of Portugal - Decline, John III of Portugal - Economic pressure, John III of Portugal - Rise of the Jesuits brings social and economic conflict, John III of Portugal - Military pressures, John III of Portugal - Dynastic crisis, John III of Portugal - International relations, John III of Portugal - Culture, John III of Portugal - Inquisition, John III of Portugal - The Portuguese Empire under John III, John III of Portugal - Africa, John III of Portugal - Asia, John III of Portugal - Brazil, John III of Portugal - Death and succession, John III of Portugal - Issue, John III of Portugal - Style

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There were four Inquisitions; in chronological order, they were the Medieval Inquisition, the Spanish Inquisition, the Portuguese Inquisition and the Roman Inquisition. One would however be incorrect to presume that these were totally unrelated to each other and that the inquisition was limited to these discrete events. Inquisition - Medieval Inquisition. Main a ...

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There were four Inquisitions; in chronological order, they were the Medieval Inquisition, the Spanish Inquisition, the Portuguese Inquisition and the Roman Inquisition. One would however be incorrect to presume that these were totally unrelated to each other and that the inquisition was limited to these discrete events... Inquisition - Medieval Inquisition. Main a ...

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The Spanish Inquisition was the Inquisition acting in Spain under the control of the Kings of Spain. This Inquisition was the result of the reconquest of Spain from the Muslims and the policy of trying to convert Spanish Jews and Muslims to Christianity. The Inquisition was an important tool in enforcing the limpieza de sangre ("cleanliness of blood") against descendants of converted Jews or Muslims. Spanish Inquisition - Context. In the 15th century, Spain was not a single state but a confederation ...

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• Spanish Inquisition - Origin
• Spanish Inquisition - The Inquisition and the expulsion of the Jews
• Spanish Inquisition - Operation of the Inquistion
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The Albigensian Crusade (1209-1229) was a brutal 20-year military campaign initiated by the Roman Catholic Church to eliminate the religion practiced by the Cathars of Languedoc, which the Roman Catholic hierarchy considered heretical. It is historically significant for a number of reasons: the violence inflicted was extreme even by medieval standards; the church offered legally sanctioned dominion over conquered lands to northern French nobles and the King of France, acting as essentially Catholic mercenaries, who then nearly doubled ...

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Catholicism and Freemasonry have often seemed to be in conflict, with Freemasonry tending to anticlericalism and the Roman Catholic Church forbidding Catholics from becoming freemasons. Catholicism and Freemasonry - Catholic attitudes towards Freemasonry. Freemasonry is seen by the church as being in fundamental competition with Catholic doctrines for a number of reasons: It is alleged to advocate a Deist view of religion It advocated a radical separation of church and st ...

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The papal inquisition developed a number of procedures to discover and prosecute heretics. Medieval Inquisition - Investigation. When a papal inquisition arrived at a town it had a set of procedures and rules to identify likely heretics. First, the townspeople would be gathered in a public place. Although attendance was voluntary, those who failed to show would automatically be suspect, so most would come. The inquisitors would provide an opportunity for anyone to step forward and denounce themselves in ex ...

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Medieval Inquisition, Medieval Inquisition - Origins, Medieval Inquisition - History, Medieval Inquisition - Inquisition procedure, Medieval Inquisition - Investigation, Medieval Inquisition - Trial, Medieval Inquisition - Torture, Medieval Inquisition - Punishment, Medieval Inquisition - Legacy

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The modern day notion of a unified and horrible “Inquisition” is an assemblage of the “body of legends and myths which, between the sixteenth and the twentieth centuries, established the perceived character of inquisitorial tribunals and influenced all ensuing efforts to recover their historical reality” (Peters 1988: 122). It was the relatively limited persecution of Protestants, mostly by the inquisitions in Spain and Italy, that provoked the first image of “The Inquisition” as the most violent and suppressive vehicle of the Ch ...

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The Inquisition Myth, The Inquisition Myth - Introduction, The Inquisition Myth - Significant Works, The Inquisition Myth - Understanding Inquisitions, The Inquisition Myth - The Inquisitions in France, The Inquisition Myth - Cathars & Waldensians, The Inquisition Myth - The Grand Program, The Inquisition Myth - The Albigensian Crusade, The Inquisition Myth - Codes & Torture, The Inquisition Myth - The Inquisitions in Spain, The Inquisition Myth - Anti-Semitism & The Conversos, The Inquisition Myth - A Bull is Granted, The Inquisition Myth - Procedure & Torture, The Inquisition Myth - The auto de fe, The Inquisition Myth - The Inquisitions in Italy, The Inquisition Myth - A Changing Italy, The Inquisition Myth - The Creation of the Holy Office, The Inquisition Myth - Heresies of the Italian Inquisitions, The Inquisition Myth - Evolution of the Holy Office, The Inquisition Myth - The Creation of The Inquisition, The Inquisition Myth - A Protestant Vision..., The Inquisition Myth - The Revolt of the Netherlands, The Inquisition Myth - Montanus, The Inquisition Myth - William of Orange, The Inquisition Myth - The Black Legend, The Inquisition Myth - The Enlightenment & Art, The Inquisition Myth - Resources

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The Inquisition Myth - A Changing Italy. Increasing trends in regionalism, the criticism of ecclesiastical abuses, the Avignon Papacy, and the Great Schism all contributed to the emergence of new religious dissent and unrest in fourteenth and fifteenth century Italy. Furthermore, widespread ecclesiastical and clerical reform advanced through the last decades of the fifteenth century, and by the second decade of the sixteenth century, reform movements prevailed in many parts of Europe (Peters 1988: 106). The prote ...

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The Inquisition Myth, The Inquisition Myth - Introduction, The Inquisition Myth - Significant Works, The Inquisition Myth - Understanding Inquisitions, The Inquisition Myth - The Inquisitions in France, The Inquisition Myth - Cathars & Waldensians, The Inquisition Myth - The Grand Program, The Inquisition Myth - The Albigensian Crusade, The Inquisition Myth - Codes & Torture, The Inquisition Myth - The Inquisitions in Spain, The Inquisition Myth - Anti-Semitism & The Conversos, The Inquisition Myth - A Bull is Granted, The Inquisition Myth - Procedure & Torture, The Inquisition Myth - The auto de fe, The Inquisition Myth - The Inquisitions in Italy, The Inquisition Myth - A Changing Italy, The Inquisition Myth - The Creation of the Holy Office, The Inquisition Myth - Heresies of the Italian Inquisitions, The Inquisition Myth - Evolution of the Holy Office, The Inquisition Myth - The Creation of The Inquisition, The Inquisition Myth - A Protestant Vision..., The Inquisition Myth - The Revolt of the Netherlands, The Inquisition Myth - Montanus, The Inquisition Myth - William of Orange, The Inquisition Myth - The Black Legend, The Inquisition Myth - The Enlightenment & Art, The Inquisition Myth - Resources

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The Inquisition Myth - Cathars & Waldensians. The two heresies that gave birth to the French medieval inquisitions were that of the Cathars (also known as the Albigensians) and the Waldensians. The Cathars essentially believed that a “good god” created everything heavenly while an “evil god” – the God of the Old Testament – created the material world with the Church acting as its vehicle (Horvat 1998: 4). The Waldensians rejected the sacramental authority of the Church and its clerics and encourag ...

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The Inquisition Myth, The Inquisition Myth - Introduction, The Inquisition Myth - Significant Works, The Inquisition Myth - Understanding Inquisitions, The Inquisition Myth - The Inquisitions in France, The Inquisition Myth - Cathars & Waldensians, The Inquisition Myth - The Grand Program, The Inquisition Myth - The Albigensian Crusade, The Inquisition Myth - Codes & Torture, The Inquisition Myth - The Inquisitions in Spain, The Inquisition Myth - Anti-Semitism & The Conversos, The Inquisition Myth - A Bull is Granted, The Inquisition Myth - Procedure & Torture, The Inquisition Myth - The auto de fe, The Inquisition Myth - The Inquisitions in Italy, The Inquisition Myth - A Changing Italy, The Inquisition Myth - The Creation of the Holy Office, The Inquisition Myth - Heresies of the Italian Inquisitions, The Inquisition Myth - Evolution of the Holy Office, The Inquisition Myth - The Creation of The Inquisition, The Inquisition Myth - A Protestant Vision..., The Inquisition Myth - The Revolt of the Netherlands, The Inquisition Myth - Montanus, The Inquisition Myth - William of Orange, The Inquisition Myth - The Black Legend, The Inquisition Myth - The Enlightenment & Art, The Inquisition Myth - Resources

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The Aragonese Ferdinand was not above using religion as a means of controlling his people. He wanted the Jewish and Muslim religions wiped out in his domains, and the Inquisition was his method for achieving that. A related explanation is that Spain, having been historically an area with regions with disparate traditions as well as disparate ethnic groups, needed a common religion-Catholicism-to serve as a point(and perhaps THE point)of unity. Also, many historians believe the Spanish Inquisition was instituted as a way of weakening Ferdinan ...

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Spanish Inquisition, Spanish Inquisition - Context, Spanish Inquisition - Origin, Spanish Inquisition - The Inquisition and the expulsion of the Jews, Spanish Inquisition - Operation of the Inquistion, Spanish Inquisition - Torture techniques used, Spanish Inquisition - Death tolls, Spanish Inquisition - The Spanish Inquisition in the arts

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All medieval inquisitions were decentralized. Authority rested with local officials based on guidelines from the Pope, but there was no central top-down authority running the inquisitions, as would be the case in post-medieval inquisitions. Thus there were many different types of inquisitions depending on the location and methods; historians have generally classified them into the episcopal i ...

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Medieval Inquisition, Medieval Inquisition - Origins, Medieval Inquisition - History, Medieval Inquisition - Inquisition procedure, Medieval Inquisition - Investigation, Medieval Inquisition - Trial, Medieval Inquisition - Torture, Medieval Inquisition - Punishment, Medieval Inquisition - Legacy

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See also: History of the Jews in Spain Ferdinand and Isabella appointed Tomás de Torquemada in 1481 to investigate and punish conversos — Jews and Moors (Muslims) who claimed to have "converted" to Catholicism but continued to practice their "former" religion in secret. Some disguised Jews had even been ordained as priests and even bishops. Detractors also called converted Jews Marranos, a pejorative word that can also be translated "pigs." The Inquisition started by targeting Conversos in Seville, and tribunal ...

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Spanish Inquisition, Spanish Inquisition - Context, Spanish Inquisition - Origin, Spanish Inquisition - The Inquisition and the expulsion of the Jews, Spanish Inquisition - Operation of the Inquistion, Spanish Inquisition - Torture techniques used, Spanish Inquisition - Death tolls, Spanish Inquisition - The Spanish Inquisition in the arts

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The Inquisition Myth - Anti-Semitism & The Conversos. Anti-Semitic attitudes increased all over Europe during the late thirteenth century and throughout the fourteenth century. England and France expelled their Jewish populations in 1290 and 1306 respectively (Peters 1988: 79). At the same time, Spain’s anti-Jewish sentiment steadily increased. This prejudice climaxed in the summer of 1391 when violent anti-Jewish riots broke out in Spanish cities like Barcelona (Peters 1988: 82). These mob riots led to maj ...

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The Inquisition Myth, The Inquisition Myth - Introduction, The Inquisition Myth - Significant Works, The Inquisition Myth - Understanding Inquisitions, The Inquisition Myth - The Inquisitions in France, The Inquisition Myth - Cathars & Waldensians, The Inquisition Myth - The Grand Program, The Inquisition Myth - The Albigensian Crusade, The Inquisition Myth - Codes & Torture, The Inquisition Myth - The Inquisitions in Spain, The Inquisition Myth - Anti-Semitism & The Conversos, The Inquisition Myth - A Bull is Granted, The Inquisition Myth - Procedure & Torture, The Inquisition Myth - The auto de fe, The Inquisition Myth - The Inquisitions in Italy, The Inquisition Myth - A Changing Italy, The Inquisition Myth - The Creation of the Holy Office, The Inquisition Myth - Heresies of the Italian Inquisitions, The Inquisition Myth - Evolution of the Holy Office, The Inquisition Myth - The Creation of The Inquisition, The Inquisition Myth - A Protestant Vision..., The Inquisition Myth - The Revolt of the Netherlands, The Inquisition Myth - Montanus, The Inquisition Myth - William of Orange, The Inquisition Myth - The Black Legend, The Inquisition Myth - The Enlightenment & Art, The Inquisition Myth - Resources

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In the 15th century, Spain was not a single state but a confederation of realms, each with their own administrations, such as the Crown of Aragon and the Crown of Castile, ruled by Ferdinand and Isabella, respectively. In the Crown of Aragon, a confederation of the Kingdom of Aragon, Baleares, Catalonia and Valencia, there was a local inquisition from the Middle Ages, as in the rest of the European countries ...

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Spanish Inquisition, Spanish Inquisition - Context, Spanish Inquisition - Origin, Spanish Inquisition - The Inquisition and the expulsion of the Jews, Spanish Inquisition - Operation of the Inquistion, Spanish Inquisition - Torture techniques used, Spanish Inquisition - Death tolls, Spanish Inquisition - The Spanish Inquisition in the arts

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The Inquisition Myth - Significant Works. The two most significant and extensively cited sources of the modern analysis concerning the conflicting histories over the inquisitorial proceedings are Inquisition (1988) by Edward Peters and The Spanish Inquisition: A Historical Revision (1997) by Henry Kamen. These works focus on exposing and correcting the revisionist and misinterpreted histories that surround the inquisitions today. The following research is an attempt to present Peters’s and Kamen’s ideas by discussing some of the most popular and misguided op ...

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The Inquisition Myth, The Inquisition Myth - Introduction, The Inquisition Myth - Significant Works, The Inquisition Myth - Understanding Inquisitions, The Inquisition Myth - The Inquisitions in France, The Inquisition Myth - Cathars & Waldensians, The Inquisition Myth - The Grand Program, The Inquisition Myth - The Albigensian Crusade, The Inquisition Myth - Codes & Torture, The Inquisition Myth - The Inquisitions in Spain, The Inquisition Myth - Anti-Semitism & The Conversos, The Inquisition Myth - A Bull is Granted, The Inquisition Myth - Procedure & Torture, The Inquisition Myth - The auto de fe, The Inquisition Myth - The Inquisitions in Italy, The Inquisition Myth - A Changing Italy, The Inquisition Myth - The Creation of the Holy Office, The Inquisition Myth - Heresies of the Italian Inquisitions, The Inquisition Myth - Evolution of the Holy Office, The Inquisition Myth - The Creation of The Inquisition, The Inquisition Myth - A Protestant Vision..., The Inquisition Myth - The Revolt of the Netherlands, The Inquisition Myth - Montanus, The Inquisition Myth - William of Orange, The Inquisition Myth - The Black Legend, The Inquisition Myth - The Enlightenment & Art, The Inquisition Myth - Resources

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