15-4. history p. 402
Spanish Inquisition
"Church court" - 1481 by Ferdinand and Isabella, the process in Spain for identifying and punishing suspicious non-Christians and those said to be heretics.
Edict of Grace
A call to people to confess their heretical beliefs Gave people time to come forward to accues themselves and others. If you forward at this time, your property would be kept - There were 1000 who self confesses (mostly children). It was used to get people to come forward for study.
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A person's status as a Jew, they argued, could not be changed by religious conversion, but was in their blood and was heritable, so Jews could never be true Christians.
Moriscos
Converted Muslims in Spain. They were one of the targets of the Inquisition. Finally, Moriscos were expelled from Spain in 1609. Loss to the economy of Spain.
anti-Semitism
Discrimination or hatred of Jews
Jewish Expulsion
Edict expelling all Jews from England
Muslims
Followers of Islam
anti-Semitism
In response, officials of the Inquisition developed a new type of ____.
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Isabella and Ferdinand issued an edict expelling all practicing Jews from Spain. Of the community of perhaps 200,000 Jews, 150,000 fl ed. Absolute religious orthodoxy and "purity of blood" served as the theoretical foundation of the Spanish national state.
Tomas Torquemada
Isabella's strict childhood priest. In charge of the court of the Spanish Inquisition. whose name became synonyms with CRUELTY and TORTURE,
Inquisition
Queen Isabella shared these suspicions, and she and Ferdinand received permission from Pope Sixtus IV to establish an ____ to "search out and punish converts from Judaism who had transgressed against Christianity by secretly adhering to Jewish beliefs and performing rites of the Jews." Investigations and trials began immediately, as offi cials of the Inquisition looked for conversos who showed any sign of incomplete conversion, such as not eating pork.
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Such successes bred resentment. Aristocratic grandees resented their financial dependence; the poor hated the converso tax collectors; and churchmen doubted the sincerity of their conversions.
Reconquista
The long effort by Christian leaders to drive the Muslims out of Spain, lasting from the 1100s until 1492.,
Reconquista
___ Goal is to drive Muslims out of Spain; Achieved by Ferdiand and Isabella in 1492. This unified Spain into a powerful nation-state
Auto-de-fe
___ was "Act of Faith"
'Black Legend'
____ False concept states that all the Spanish did was torture and kill the Native Americas. This caused many misconceptions about the Spanish; THOUGH they did torture Native Americans, they also created a huge empire and brought new laws and ideas to the Americas.
Queen Isabella and Ferdinand
____ received permission from Pope Sixtus IV to establish an Inquisition to "search out and punish converts from Judaism who had transgressed against Christianity by secretly adhering to Jewish beliefs and performing rites of the Jews."
Tomas Torquemada
____ was appointed to run the Inquisition
"Act of Faith"
it was the act of the court punishing people being accused of heresy (going against accepted religious belief). Isabella of Castile and Ferdinand of Aragon used this tactic to have Jews accused of heresy punished, Punishments included fines, public confession, burning at the stake, confinement to dungeons, physical abuse and torture, and banishment from public life. Those who didn't confess were burned at the stake without strangulation; those who did confess (under torture) were strangled first.,
Auto-de-fe
means "Act of Faith"; was a public place of repentance, the Jews and other heretics were punished as a way of showing repentance