The Spanish Inquisition [antikvár]

CHAPTER I the medieyal inquisition and medieyal spain The fame of the Spanish Inquisition as it was established by Ferdinánd and Isabella towards the elose of the fifteenth century has been sueh that it has tended to blur popular recognition of the fact that the Holy Office was aetive in many other eountries besides Spain, and existed long before the fifteenth century. It is true that the Spanish tribunal had distinctive characteristics which justify the treatment of it separate mstitution, but it is not possible to appreciate its peculiarities without reference to the Inquisition in other lands and at other periods. The Inquisition was evolved in the Middle Ages as an effective means of coping with the problem of heresy, which became a serious menace to the Catholic Church in the twelfth century. The literal meaning of the word heresy is choosing, selecting, and of the heinousness of the 1