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What was the Spanish Inquisition's purpose during the Middle Ages?
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King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella, Crown Heads of Aragon and Castille, instituted the Spanish Inquisition in 1480 to investigate Jewish and Muslim converts (conversos) to Christianity suspected of secretly practicing their former religions.
These rulers believed their authority was derived from God and that lasting civil unity would be achieved through a united national faith. They feared that Jewish and Islamic elements might seep into the national religion, as they had in art, architecture, and language, and cause religious confusion and possibly lead to civil unrest.
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Armenio, P. ed. Socias, J. The History of the Church - A Complete Course. (Midwest Theological Forum: Woodridge, IL 2005).
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What was the middle ages trial?
During the middle ages, heresy trials were called inquisitions.
What type of tactics did the church use during the inquisition?
There were more than one Inquisitions, of which the Spanish Inquisition is the most famous, and also the least objectionable, if that is something possible to say about any of the Inquisitions. Many people believe that torture was a routine tactic used by the Inquisitions, but this is not quite true. The priests found that the threat of torture was usually more successful in achieving their aims than torture itself.
How was the use of torture against suspected heretics during the Medieval Inquisitions theologically defended?
The defenders of torture during the Medieval Inquisitions used passages from the Bible to justify their techniques. One of the most famous people to be killed during this time was Joan of Arc.
How did Judaism came into Caribbean?
Jews came to the Caribbean initially during the Spanish and Portuguese Inquisitions.
How did the middle class influence the Filipinos during the Spanish regime?
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What was an imaginative battle tactic used by Drake during the Spanish armada?
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During the Middle Ages the primary purpose of Western art was to?
portray the spiritual world
What choices did people have during the inquisition?
They didn't have a choice either you were the religion that they wanted you t be or you were held as prisoner ,executed ,or tortured till you died. the Spanish inquisition was started by king Ferdinand and queen Isabella they wanted to make sure that no other religion was being practiced besides Christianity. if you were accused of heresy (the practice of another religion) you were sentenced to die. more than two thirds of the population was killed during either the Spanish inquisition or the Portuguese inquisitions.
During the middle ages what was the purpose of the sacraments according to the teaching of the church?
The sacraments marked the most important occasions in a person's life.
What was the last Muslim city of Spain during the Middle Ages?
In 1492, the Spanish regained Granada, the last Muslim-held city in Spain.
What was the inquisition and how did this movement help foster witch-hunts during the Middle Ages?
An inquisition is an investigation into people or organizations that are thought to be heretical by the Roman Catholic Church. Inquisitions began in the late 12th century, and have continued since. The medieval inquisitions were aimed at such heretical movements as the Cathars and Waldensians. When we speak of the inquisition, without saying specifically saying which, we are usually speaking of the Spanish Inquisition, which started in 1478 and lasted until 1834. There were also Portuguese and Roman Inquisitions, both of which began in the 16th century. These later inquisitions were aimed at rooting out all heretics rather than being confined to investigating specific heresies.Witch trials began in ancient times, but were not in much of the medieval world until they started happening in Southern France and Switzerland in the 14th and 15th centuries, about the time the Renaissance began. In the early years, they were trials of individuals and small groups. Later, they became organized and state sanctioned efforts to find, try, and execute witches, rather than to try people who were accused of witchcraft, and these were the witch hunts. They originated in the early Renaissance and became widespread in the 16th century, and continued for something over a hundred years. They were a money making operation for people who got bounties for each witch executed.The estimates I have seen on executions of witches put the numbers for the entire Middle Ages in the hundreds, or less than one per year for the continent of Europe on average. The estimates I have seen for the period of the 16th and 17th centuries, after the Middle Ages ended, possibly as many as 100,000 executions, or 500 per year. The witch hunts began in Switzerland and southern France, but were primarily in focused in Germany, Denmark, England, and Scotland, all Protestant countries, where the inquisitions were not operating.Based on these facts, I would say that the inquisitions and the witch hunts were things that were coincidental, and possibly not related on a basis of cause and effect. The strong connection between them was that both the later inquisitions and the witch hunts were proactive attempts to find evil, as opposed to attempts to deal with evils that had been exposed. But in any case, they had little to do with the Middle Ages.For more information, please use the links below.
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