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Title: One of the darker periods of Spanish history is the Spanish Inquisition, which shrouded Spain for over 350 years.


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  • One of the darker periods of Spanish history is
    the Spanish Inquisition, which shrouded Spain for
    over 350 years.
  • This era of severe censorship, paranoia, torture,
    autos-da-fé, death, and the general persecution
    of heretics, or in other words pretty much
    anybody who deliberately disagreed with the
    principles of the Catholic church, began in 1478
    and lasted until 1834.
  • In both scope and intensity, the Spanish
    Inquisition far surpassed the Medieval
    Inquisition, from which the Catholic monarchs
    took the original idea.

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  • Spain was made up of many different religious
    groups such as Catholics, Jews and Muslims
  • The Spanish Inquisition was a tribunal or judging
    authority. It was established in 1478 by King
    Ferrant Ferdinand and Queen Isabella as a way to
    unite all of Spain.
  • Following their kingdom-uniting marriage, the
    famous Catholic monarchs had quite a project
    ahead of them. Not only did the two kingdoms of
    Aragón and Castilla become one amongst mixed
    opinions, but the monarchy was closing in on the
    remaining Moorish kingdoms with the end of the
    reconquista.
  • Moorish kingdoms are made up of Muslims

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  • In order to manage, unite and strengthen their
    enlarging and culturally diverse kingdom they
    decided that the means of unification would be
    through Catholic orthodoxy.
  • So, in 1478, they asked permission from Pope
    Sixtux IV to establish a special sect of the
    Inquisition- permission that he reluctantly
    granted- and so began the Spanish Inquisition.

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  • The monarchy especially feared the intervention
    of Jewish and Moorish reinforcements from abroad,
    so they forced non-Catholics to choose between
    conversion to Catholicism or expulsion from the
    country to eliminate the possibility.
  • Those suspected of practising Protestantism,black
    magic and anything else that the monarchy saw as
    a threat also found themselves amongst the
    persecuted.

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  • In 1492, many Jews were expelled from Spain.
    These cultures had lived amongst each other for
    so long that many Jews and Muslims held positions
    of power.
  • In 1609, King Phillip II of Spain expelled
    thousands of Moriscos
  • Both reasons stem from the fear that converted
    Muslims and Jews were still practicing their
    former religion in secrecy. They were referred to
    as crypto-Jews or crypto-Muslims

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  • Just a few years later suspicions arose again,
    this time regarding the loyalty of those
    conversos (converted Jews) and moriscos
    (converted Moors) to Catholicism. The Inquisition
    became obsessed with the suspicion that the
    converts only pretended to convert to escape
    persecution, continued to practice their own
    religions privately, and planned to undermine the
    church in the future.

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  • While the Spanish Inquisition revolved around a
    religious foundation, it operated independently
    of the Catholic Church. In other words, the
    Catholic Church had no say in the operations of
    the Spanish Inquisition - not even the Pope. It
    was the job of the first General-Inquisitor,
    Tomás de Torquemada, to shape the Inquisition
    into the extremely organized, ruthless witch-hunt
    that it became.

"The Hammer of Heretics"
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  • He established tribunals, which are judging
    authoritative bodies) of the inquisition
    throughout Spain. Heretics, whose names the
    tribunals acquired from the fearful general
    public, were presented, tried in the tribunal,
    and handed their sentence all in a public
    ceremony known as an auto-da-fé.
  • If they did not repent, they either received
    anything from life in prison to being burned
    alive at the stake.
  • The tribunal forced those who did repent to name
    other heretics, hand over their money, and
    sometimes still serve time in a jail cell. Of
    course, there were no "alleged" heretics- just
    those who repented and those who did not.

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  • The accused would be laid face up on a table and
    bound with ropes at the wrists and ankles, which
    would be pulled in increments to produce terrible
    pain

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  • Found in Spain and Germany
  • Strategically placed spikes would pierce vital
    organs but did not stab deep enough to be
    instantly fatal
  • Instead, victims would bleed out for hours
  • Notice the spikes located directly where your
    eyes would be?
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