Establishment of the Spanish Inquisition
At a glance:
- Series: Chronology of European History
- Categories: Government and Politics, Religion, Ethics, Social Issues, Reform, and Protest, Terrorism
- Subcategories: Christianity, Christians, Churches, Catholic Church, Catholics, Judaism, Jews, Synagogues, Temples, Islam, Muslims, Mosques, Human Rights, Spanish Inquisition
- Curriculum: Renaissance History, Medieval History/Middle Ages, Spanish/Portuguese History
- Geographical Location: Spain
- Date: November 1, 1478
Article abstract: The establishment of the Spanish Inquisition allows the Catholic Church to prosecute converted Jews suspected of heresy, but is soon expanded to enforce orthodoxy by pursuing converted Muslims, alleged witches, Protestants, and others within Spain for more than three hundred years.
Summary of Event
The term “inquisition” denotes the judicial persecution of heretics by special church courts. The so-called Spanish Inquisition differed from other such tribunals in that it was directly under the authority of the Crown, but it was not...
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