What was the Spanish Inquisition?

Question

I heard of it but don't know much about it.

Answer 1

it was called the "Santa Hermandad"!By sometimes beastly and overly cruel and inhuman tortures jews,moor,arabs,moslems,berber captives and others were committed to death or in some cases the possibility of conversion to christianity and a pledge of undying loyalty to the spanish crown and the catholic religion.MANY TIMES CONFESSIONS OF ATHESISM,ISLAMIC WORSHIP AND TREASON TO THE CROWN WERE ILLICITED UNDER GRAVE TORTURES ONLY TO BE REWARDED BY DEATH WHETHER THE CHARGES WERE TRUE OR COERCED SIMPLLY TO SIEZE ALL OF THE PROPERTY AND HOLDINGS OF INDIVIDUAL PEOPLE OR FAMILIES!!THERE WAS MUCH "CONVENIENT" TESTIMONY BY VIRTUE OF WHICH MANY WITNESSES AND OFFICIALS PROFITED FINANCIAL AND RECEIVED GREAT HOLDINGS OF LANDS,JEWELS AND RICHES FOR THEIR "GODLY" EFFORTS!!MANY VICTIMS BECAME "CONVERSOS";BUT WERE NEVER REALLY TRUSTED AND MANY WERE DEPORTED IN SPITE OF ALL PROMISED LENIENCIES TO THE CONTRARY!!CHILDREN WERE COMMITTEED TO FLAMES AND TORTURES IN FRONT OF THEIR PARENTS AND VICEVERSA!!!ORANGE HOT IRONS AND HOOKS,BLADES AND KNIVES AS WELL AS DEVISES TO STRETCH THE BODY OR DRAW AND QUARTER THEM WERE DEVISED!!WHEN ALL OF THE "FOREIGN ELEMENTS" OF THE MOORISH STATES HAD BEEN DEALT WITH MANY TIMES FALSE CHARGES WERE LEVELED AT THE SPANISH DONS THEMSELVES IN ATTEMPTS TO SUPPOSEDLY "CURB" APOSTASCY AND RELIGIOUS ERROR!!THE NEW WORLD WITH ALL OF IT'S PERILS BECAME A HAVEN FOR MANY THREATENED PEOPLES OF ALL SENSITIVITIES!!LITTLE OF THESE TORMENTS WERE MUCH EXHIBITED ON THE VOYAGERS AT LEAST IN THE NEW LANDS;HOWEVER THE NATIVES SUFFERED ALL OF THE UNSPEAKABLE HORRORS THAT THE SPANIARDS THESELVES TOOK FOR GRANTED TOWARDS AN ENEMY AGAINST THEIR INTENTIONS AND THEIR VERSION OF RELIGION!!!HERESY WAS NOT TOLERATED ANYWHERE THEY WENT!!

Answer 2

the last and most brutal of a long line of burning innocent individuals by the hypocritical church in the name of the most gracious loving god.

Inquisition is broadly used, to refer to things related to judgment of heresy by the Roman Catholic Church. It can mean an ecclesiastical tribunal or institution from the Roman Catholic Church for combating or suppressing heresy, a number of historical expurgation movements against heresy (orchestrated by the Roman Catholic Church), or the trial conducted against a heretic.

Before the twelfth century, the Catholic Church had already suppressed heresy, but on an ad hoc basis. Since the Church at that time had no structured system for suppressing heresy the suppressions were generally slow and without any pattern.

Historians distinguish between four different manifestations of the Inquisition: the Medieval Inquisition (1184), the Spanish Inquisition, the Portuguese Inquisition (1536) and the Roman Inquisition (1542).

Because of its objective, combatting heresy, the Inquisition had jurisdiction only over baptized members of the Church (which, however, encompassed the vast majority of the population). Non-Christians could still be tried for blasphemy by secular courts. Also, most of the witch trials were held by secular courts.

The Spanish Inquisition was set up by King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Castile in 1478 with the approval of Pope Sixtus IV. In contrast to the previous Inquisition, it operated completely under royal authority, though staffed by secular clergy and orders, and independently of the Holy See. It aimed primarily at converts from Judaism and Islam (who were still residing in Spain after the end of the Moor control of Spain), who were suspected of either continuing to adhere to their old religion (often after having been converted under duress) or having fallen back into it, and later at Protestants; in Sicily and Southern Italy, which were under Spanish rule, it targeted Greek Orthodox Christians. After religious disputes waned in the 17th century, the Spanish Inquisition more and more developed into a secret police against internal threats to the state.

The Spanish Inquisition would subsequently be employed in certain Spanish colonies such as Peru and Mexico. The Spanish Inquisition continued in the Americas until Mexican Independence and was not abolished in Europe until 1834.

In the public imagination, the Spanish Inquisition continues as a proverbial example of religious persecution. Some scholars however have opined that the numbers of the Spanish inquisition's victims have been greatly exaggerated, that the Inquisition is one of the features of a Black Legend. Also, some argue that the Spanish Inquisition was responsible in part for averting in Spain the kind of religious wars that plagued France and Germany.

Similar arguments are made about averting witch trials in Spain. However the Witch trials were primaraly to stop Protesent Woment setting up in buisness (Ppal Bull of 1530) so Spain would not have been affected much by this.

see the link to Monty Pythons sketch below

Answer 3

Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition....

Answer 4

It was an effort by the Spanish monarchs to convert everone in Spain to Catholicism.

Answer 5

It was going on for 1200 to up to 1600 in Europe....during the Dark Ages. thats all i really know...

but check these web sites:

http://www.catholic.net/rcc/Periodicals/Dossier/1112-96/article2.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Inquisition

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/Inquisition.html

Answer 6

it was an institution created for the Catholic Church to control people in Middle Ages....it is remembered by its cruelty (specially in Spain: Torquemada)

bye bye

pau

from the Mexican Forum

Answer 7

The only thing we know for sure is that no one expected it.

Answer 8

ask on Google and get all the answers you can handle.

Answer 9

No one expected it, i'll tell you that much.

Answer 10

try google...morons in white hoods