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What where the types of torture that was used in the Spanish Inquisition?
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The Inquisition was keen to maintain the dishonest and misleading pretence that, as good (!) Christians, they "did not shed blood". So they tried to use tortures that didn't not involve (much) bloodshed, for example:
- Simulated drowing ("waterboarding")
- the rack
- the strappado
- thumbscrews
- putting the legs in iron "boots" that were tightened
- poking and tweaking victims' flesh and genitals with red hot inplements
To cap it all, they said things like, "We destroy the body in order to save the soul".
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Catholic AnswerActually, I'm afraid that most of the "types of torture used in the Spanish Inquisition" is a myth:.
Extracted from Seven Lies About Catholic History Infamous Myths About the Church's Past and How to Answer Them by Diane Moczar, c 2010 by TAN Books, Charlotte, North Carolina
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Of all the Inquisitions (and there were a few from the 12th century until the 19th century), practically synonymous in the popular mind with the term is the Spanish Inquisition, mostly due to anti-Spanish Black Legend Propaganda that has been produced from the Reformation until now. Thanks be to God, finally, truth is started to take hold due to people like Diane Moczar, an history professor at North Virginia Community College, Dr. William A. Donahue, the founder and president of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights as well as Henry Kamen, a British Historian and Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Please see the links below for a more detailed answer.
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One of the myths that Diane Moczar speaks about in her book, Seven Lies About Catholic History, is the one spun by English Protestant writers detailed the sadistic tortures supposedly used by Spanish Inquisitors.:
It turns out that torture was in fact rarely used, and even when it was, it was very limited. In one group of seven thousand accused persons who came before the Inquisition in Valencia, for example, only two percent were tortured, and for no more than fifteen minutes.
from Wikipedia, article on Spanish Inquistion:
Although the Inquisition was technically forbidden from permanently harming or drawing blood,[61] this still allowed for methods of torture. The methods most used, and common in other secular and ecclesiastical tribunals, were garrucha, toca and the potro.[61] The application of the garrucha, also known as the strappado, consisted of suspending the victim from the ceiling by the wrists, which are tied behind the back. Sometimes weights were tied to the ankles, with a series of lifts and drops, during which the arms and legs suffered violent pulls and were sometimes dislocated.[65] The toca, also called interrogatorio mejorado del agua, consisted of introducing a cloth into the mouth of the victim, and forcing them to ingest water spilled from a jar so that they had the impression of drowning (see: waterboarding).[66] The potro, the rack, was the instrument of torture used most frequently.[67]
61. ^ a b c Kamen, op. cit., p. 190.
62. ^ a b c Haliczer, Stephen, Inquisition and society in the kingdom of Valencia, 1478-1834, p. 79, University of California Press, 1990
63. ^ by Peters, Edward, Inquisition, Dissent, Heterodoxy and the Medieval Inquisitional Office, pp. 92-93, University of California Press (1989), ISBN 0-520-06630-8.
64. ^ Kamen, op. cit., p. 189.
65. ^ Sabatini, Rafael, Torquemada and the Spanish Inquisition: A History, p. 190, Kessinger Publishing (2003), ISBN 0-7661-3161-0.
66. ^ Scott, George Ryley, The History of Torture Throughout the Ages, p. 172, Columbia University Press (2003) ISBN 0-7103-0837-X.
67. ^ Carrol. James, Constantine's Sword: The Church and the Jews: A History, p. 356, Houghton Mifflin Books (2002), ISBN 0-618-21908-0.
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∙ 11y agoTorture was a common practice used by many courts both secular and religious during the time of the inquisitions. From Wikipedia
"The Inquisition, Inquisitio Haereticae Pravitatis(inquiry on heretical perversity), was a group of decentralized institutions within the justice system of the Roman Catholic Church whose aim was to "fight against heretics". It started in 12th century France to persecute heresy, and was later expanded to other European countries. Inquisition practices were used also on offences against canon law other than heresy."
Some inquisitions like the Spanish Inquisitions were more restrained than others, nevertheless the church did condone torture as a way to arrive at the truth.
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What manner of death ws chosen to those who would not admit to herecy during the Spanish Inquisition?
Often, torture was used to punish and kill people deemed heretics during the Spanish Inquisition. Different forms of torture that often resulted in death included starvation, excessive consumption of water, or burning coals.
What was life like during the Spanish Inquisition?
Life was absolutely horrible during the Spanish Inquisition. Horrible torture methods were used for a heretic to confess. Usually, if a heretic confessd, they would be released from prison. If they didn't confess, they would be burned at the stake.
What manner of death was chosen to those who would not admit heresy in the spanish inquisition?
Torture was often used to punish and eventually kill heretics during the Spanish inquisition. Many inquisitors would starve their inmates, force them to consume vast amounts of water, or heap burning coals onto them. Other inquisitors would use a strappado or a rack to torture and eventually kill accused heretics.
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.
What torcher was used on the Jews?
there were many types of torture, the most common was medical torture. they were used as "guinea pigs" for experiments.
What was the name what was the name system Church courts that used secert testimony and torture to root out heresy and force non-catholics to convert to catholicism?
The Inquisition is what the question is looking for, but this is not the case. First of all the Catholic Church has never forced non-Catholics to convert to Catholicism. Second, the secret testimony during the Inquisition was to protect all parties involved, and believe me, they needed the protection. For a real look at the Inquisition, please pick up Diane Moczar's book Seven Lies About Catholic History.
What are the different types of Electric Torture?
Generally electric torture is simply delivering shocks to the body, however electric devices can also create heat or cold that could be used for torture.
What were some of the tactics the Catholic Church used to fight the spread of protestantism during the Spanish Inquisition?
Although the Spanish Inquisition was licensed by the Catholic Church, it was primarily a work of the Spanish Crown. Mostly the Inquisition itself was the "tactic" if you will. If someone was reported to the Inquisitor, then an investigation was held, if there was enough evidence, the person would be brought in and questioned. Contrary to "popular opinion" the Inquisition was very mild compared to the civil government, and many cases are known of people who deliberately confessed to some transgression to get their case transferred to the Inquisition to receive more lenient and better treatment.
Which groups did Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand of Spain target and persecute during the Spanish Inquisition?
Strictly speaking, the Spanish Inquisition was designed to persecute Christian heretics, people who were believed to be following Christianity improperly. However, most of the people accused of heresy were former Jews and Muslims who converted to Christian under threat of death. As a result, it is generally oversimplified to say that the Spanish Inquisition targeted JEWS AND MUSLIMS.
What happens during the Spanish Inquisition?
Okay, I'm going to explain this, please spread this as far as wide as you can. EVERYTHING that you know about the Spanish Inquisition is false, EVERYTHING that you have been told about the Spanish Inquisition or read about it has been made up. A lot of it was made up hundreds of years ago: Spain and England were at war (think of the sixteenth century, seventeenth century) and consequently the English made up all kinds of horror stories about the Spanish. This was so long ago, and they have been told so many times by so many people that it has made it into history books with quotations, references, etc. But they are all historical facts based on lies. The fact that the lies are 400+ years old makes it difficult to sort out these days. But if you have read these lies in your history books, if you see movies, if you hear references to the Spanish Inquisition, you think "horrible, torture, beyond comprehension". Okay, now, just for laughs, they have uncovered the actual RECORDS of the Spanish Inquisition, it turns out that nothing happened without some poor monk or friar sitting right there and recording every bit of torture, and every reaction, including confessions.You may view the actual discovery, and the records for yourself at the links below. In the meantime, Diane Moczar, a professor in Virginia, who has done a lot of study in these matters, has written several books:Extracted from Seven Lies About Catholic History Infamous Myths About the Church’s Past and How to Answer Them by Diane Moczar, c 2010 by TAN Books, Charlotte, North CarolinaOf all the Inquisitions (and there were a few from the 12th century until the 19th century), practically synonymous in the popular mind with the term is the Spanish Inquisition, mostly due to anti-Spanish Black Legend Propaganda that has been produced from the Reformation until now. Thanks be to God, finally, truth is started to take hold due to people like Diane Moczar, an history professor at North Virginia Community College, Dr. William A. Donahue, the founder and president of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights as well as Henry Kamen, a British Historian and Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Please see the links below.One of the myths that Diane Moczar speaks about in her book, Seven Lies About Catholic History, is the one spun by English Protestant writers detailed the sadistic tortures supposedly used by Spanish Inquisitors.:"It turns out that torture was in fact rarely used, and even when it was, it was very limited. In one group of seven thousand accused persons who came before the Inquisition in Valencia, for example, only two percent were tortured, and for no more than fifteen minutes."And now for the evidence:Here are the links to the documentary I spoke of regarding the true nature of the Inquisition-- It would be interesting to contrast to the latest interpretation from the History Channel, still perpetuating the old myths.... Worthwhile for apologetic minded Catholics...AnswerAlthough the question may not be about the brutality and sadism of the Spanish Inquisition, it is certainly true that the Spanish Inquisition was more humane than the medieval Inquisition or the Roman Inquisition. That does not win it a Nobel Peace Prize, but by the standards of religious bigotry of its day, the excesses of the Spanish Inquisition were far from the worst. The Inquisitors may even have thought of themselves as liberal, limiting periods of torture to no more than 15 minutes each time, and generally applying torture only one time. In the 350-year lifespan of the Spanish Inquisition, only about 4,000 people were put to the stake, compared to some 60,000 burnt by Catholics and Protestants in the rest of Europe. One reason was that, while Europe was in a frenzy of killing supposed witches, thetrained legal scholars in Spain found no believable evidence for witchcraft.Pope Sixtus IV issued a bull on November 1, 1478, allowing the Spanish crown to form an inquisitorial tribunal. As was now the custom, the monarchs would have complete authority over the inquisitors and the inquisition.In this early stage of the Spanish Inquisition, Old Christians and Jews used the tribunals as a weapon against their converso enemies. Since the Inquisition’s sole purpose was to investigate conversos, the Old Christians had nothing to fear from it and the Jews were immune to the Inquisition.In later years, the Inquisition was concerned with 'heresy' - the spread of Protestantism.After the reforms of the early sixteenthcentury, the Spanish Inquisition was staffed by well-educated legal professionals and was one of the most compassionate and efficient judicial bodies in Europe. No major court in Europe executed fewer people than the Spanish Inquisition. The Spanish Inquisition's objectives were wrong and its methods were wrong, just as it was wrong to punish people for their sincerely held beliefs, but they compare well to the Inquisitions set up under direct control of the Church. On the one hand it is useless to criticise churchmen who simply did not understand the ethical standards we would set today, nor on the other hand to excuse the base religious intolerance and abuses that the Spanish Inquisition represented.
What what happen during the Spanish inquisition?
Okay, I'm going to explain this, please spread this as far as wide as you can. EVERYTHING that you know about the Spanish Inquisition is false, EVERYTHING that you have been told about the Spanish Inquisition or read about it has been made up. A lot of it was made up hundreds of years ago: Spain and England were at war (think of the sixteenth century, seventeenth century) and consequently the English made up all kinds of horror stories about the Spanish. This was so long ago, and they have been told so many times by so many people that it has made it into history books with quotations, references, etc. But they are all historical facts based on lies. The fact that the lies are 400+ years old makes it difficult to sort out these days. But if you have read these lies in your history books, if you see movies, if you hear references to the Spanish Inquisition, you think "horrible, torture, beyond comprehension". Okay, now, just for laughs, they have uncovered the actual RECORDS of the Spanish Inquisition, it turns out that nothing happened without some poor monk or friar sitting right there and recording every bit of torture, and every reaction, including confessions.You may view the actual discovery, and the records for yourself at the links below. In the meantime, Diane Moczar, a professor in Virginia, who has done a lot of study in these matters, has written several books:Extracted from Seven Lies About Catholic History Infamous Myths About the Church’s Past and How to Answer Them by Diane Moczar, c 2010 by TAN Books, Charlotte, North CarolinaOf all the Inquisitions (and there were a few from the 12th century until the 19th century), practically synonymous in the popular mind with the term is the Spanish Inquisition, mostly due to anti-Spanish Black Legend Propaganda that has been produced from the Reformation until now. Thanks be to God, finally, truth is started to take hold due to people like Diane Moczar, an history professor at North Virginia Community College, Dr. William A. Donahue, the founder and president of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights as well as Henry Kamen, a British Historian and Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Please see the links below.One of the myths that Diane Moczar speaks about in her book, Seven Lies About Catholic History, is the one spun by English Protestant writers detailed the sadistic tortures supposedly used by Spanish Inquisitors.:"It turns out that torture was in fact rarely used, and even when it was, it was very limited. In one group of seven thousand accused persons who came before the Inquisition in Valencia, for example, only two percent were tortured, and for no more than fifteen minutes."And now for the evidence:Here are the links to the documentary I spoke of regarding the true nature of the Inquisition-- It would be interesting to contrast to the latest interpretation from the History Channel, still perpetuating the old myths.... Worthwhile for apologetic minded Catholics...AnswerAlthough the question may not be about the brutality and sadism of the Spanish Inquisition, it is certainly true that the Spanish Inquisition was more humane than the medieval Inquisition or the Roman Inquisition. That does not win it a Nobel Peace Prize, but by the standards of religious bigotry of its day, the excesses of the Spanish Inquisition were far from the worst. The Inquisitors may even have thought of themselves as liberal, limiting periods of torture to no more than 15 minutes each time, and generally applying torture only one time. In the 350-year lifespan of the Spanish Inquisition, only about 4,000 people were put to the stake, compared to some 60,000 burnt by Catholics and Protestants in the rest of Europe. One reason was that, while Europe was in a frenzy of killing supposed witches, thetrained legal scholars in Spain found no believable evidence for witchcraft.Pope Sixtus IV issued a bull on November 1, 1478, allowing the Spanish crown to form an inquisitorial tribunal. As was now the custom, the monarchs would have complete authority over the inquisitors and the inquisition.In this early stage of the Spanish Inquisition, Old Christians and Jews used the tribunals as a weapon against their converso enemies. Since the Inquisition’s sole purpose was to investigate conversos, the Old Christians had nothing to fear from it and the Jews were immune to the Inquisition.In later years, the Inquisition was concerned with 'heresy' - the spread of Protestantism.After the reforms of the early sixteenthcentury, the Spanish Inquisition was staffed by well-educated legal professionals and was one of the most compassionate and efficient judicial bodies in Europe. No major court in Europe executed fewer people than the Spanish Inquisition. The Spanish Inquisition's objectives were wrong and its methods were wrong, just as it was wrong to punish people for their sincerely held beliefs, but they compare well to the Inquisitions set up under direct control of the Church. On the one hand it is useless to criticise churchmen who simply did not understand the ethical standards we would set today, nor on the other hand to excuse the base religious intolerance and abuses that the Spanish Inquisition represented.
What were the types of torture used for those accused of witchcraft?
witches are people who chase scared children for aids.
