This book challenges the reputation of the Spanish Inquisition as an instrument of religious persecution, torture and repressionand looks at its wider role as an educative force in society.
- A reassessment of the history of the Spanish Inquisition.
- Challenges the reputation of the Inquisition as an instrument of religious persecution, torture and repression.
- Looks at the wider role of the Inquisition as an educative force in society.
- Draws on the findings of recent research by American, British and European scholars.
- Includes original documentary evidence in translation.
List of Maps and Plates.
Acknowledgements.
Chronology.
1 The Historiography of the Inquisition.
Introduction.
Sixteenth and Seventeenth-century Literature.
The Black Legend.
Eighteenth and Nineteenth-century Literature.
Twentieth-century Scholarship.
The Inquisitorial Data-bank.
The Four Seasons of the Inquisition.
Conclusion.
2 The Inquisition as an Institution.
The Office of Inquisitor General.
The Council of Inquisition.
The Inquisition in the Provinces.
The Procedures of the Inquisition.
The Auto de Fe.
The Finances of the Inquisition.
Inquisitors General of Castile and Aragón, 1483--1818 (Appendix).
3 The Inquisition and the Converso.
Anti-semitic Tensions in Spanish Society.
The Statutes of Limpieza de Sangre.
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