{"by":"yurielt","dead":true,"id":26817752,"parent":26817569,"text":"From wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_revision_of_the_Inq...

Inquisitions were ecclesiastical investigations conducted either directly by the Catholic Church or by secular authorities with the support of the Church. These investigations were undertaken at varying times in varying regions under the authority of the local bishop and his designates or under the sponsorship of papal-appointed legates. The purpose of each inquisition was specific to the outstanding circumstances of the region in which it was held. Investigations usually involved a legal process...

"Until recently, Protestant-inspired literature on the Inquisition tended to be hostile to the Catholic Church per se, while Catholic literature tended to be narrowly apologetic and justificatory."[2] For Protestant scholars of the nineteenth century such as William H. Prescott and John Lothrop Motley the Spanish Inquisition represented "the archsymbol of religious intolerance and ecclesiastical power".[3] \nHenry Charles Lea wrote both A History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages (1888) and A History of the Inquisition of Spain (1906). A History of the Inquisition of Spain was considered both groundbreaking and polemical. His studies were criticized for having both an anti-Catholic[4] and an anti-Spanish bias. Lea saw the Inquisition as theocratic absolutism that weakened Spain to an extent that undermined its overseas empire and ultimately contributed to its defeat during the Spanish–American War of 1898.[3] However both Juan Antonio Llorente's in his Histoire critique de l'Inquisition espagnole (1817) and Lea had access to original documents.

For a long time, the Spanish Inquisition had been associated principally with persecution of Protestants. Nineteenth-century historian José Amador de los Ríos brought a focus to bear on the situation of Spain's large converso population.[3]

Iarocci, Michael P. (1 March 2006). Properties of Modernity. Vanderbilt University Press. p. 218. ISBN 0-8265-1522-3.\n Hove, Brian S.J., "The Inquisitions of History: The Mythology and the Reality", Ignatian Insight, January 2012\n Kagan, Richard L., "A Kinder, Gentler Inquisition", The New York Times (book review), 19 April 1998

While I do not know about the exact aspect of the inquisition you want to demystify yourself about. The truth is that a lot of it was anglo revisionism as tensions rose between the British crown and the Catholic Church, here above and after is one of many links that have sources in them, both links and books that will dispel many of the myths you might believe about the holy inquisition.

https://www.ru.nl/theology/society/imagining-the-inquisition...

https://www.ru.nl/theology/society/imagining-the-inquisition...","time":1618475987,"type":"comment"}

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