The Spanish Inquisition
Published on 8. May 2008
192 pages
978-1-4051-4292-2 (ISBN)
Description
This book challenges the reputation of the Spanish Inquisition asan instrument of religious persecution, torture and repressionandlooks 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 instrumentof religious persecution, torture and repression.
* Looks at the wider role of the Inquisition as an educativeforce in society.
* Draws on the findings of recent research by American, Britishand European scholars.
* Includes original documentary evidence in translation.
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"Rawlings has made a valuable contribution to the field. She hassuccessfully constructed a thought-provoking, analyticalprécis of some of the most essential studies of her subject.She has emphasized the complicated and contingent nature of theInquisition's practices in a manner accessible to anyinterested reader." (European History Quarterly, January2009) "Offers insights into a much mythologised and malignedphenomenon and, historiographically, it's bang up to date." (BBCHistory Magazine) "Helen Rawling's The Spanish Inquisition is an excellentintroduction to this complex and controversial subject." (H-NetReviews) "Solid virtues and thoughtful care ... have gone into thiscontribution." (Bulletin of Spanish Studies) "Makes for compelling reading and for a perfect test caseagainst which to measure all the revisionist history that Rawlingsso aptly summarises." (Journal of EcclesiasticalHistory)"Helen Rawlings combines a thoughtful reading of the vast secondaryliterature on the Spanish Inquisition with an adroit deployment ofsamples from the sources and with formidable statisticalinformation. The Spanish Inquisition is a thorough,balanced, and insightful rendering of one of the most controversialtopics in history. An excellent book!" Teofilo F Ruiz,University of California, Los Angeles "Offers insights into a much mythologised and malignedphenomenon and, historiographically, it's bang up to date." BBC History Magazine "Helen Rawling's The Spanish Inquisition is an excellentintroduction to this complex and controversial subject." H-NetReviews "Solid virtues and thoughtful care ... have gone into thiscontribution." Bulletin of Spanish Studies "Makes for compelling reading and for a perfect test caseagainst which to measure all the revisionist history that Rawlingsso aptly summarises." Journal of Ecclesiastical HistoryMore details
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Helen Rawlings is a Lecturer in Spanish at the University of Leicester. Her previous publications include Church, Religion and Society in Early Modern Spain (2002).
Content
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.
The Beginnings of the Spanish Inquisition.
The Expulsion of the Jews.
The Portuguese New Christians.
4 The Inquisition and the Morisco.
1492--1525: Coexistence and Conversion.
1526--1550: Respite.
1560--1570: Coercion and Revolt in Granada.
1570--1600: The End of Tolerance in Aragón.
1600-1609: The Route to Expulsion.
1609--1614: The Aftermath.
5 The Inquisition and Protestantism.
Illuminism and Humanism under Attack.
Innovation in Religious Life Condemned.
The Protestant Challenge, 1558--1559.
Inquisitorial Censorship and the 1559 Index.
Biblical Scholarship under Scrutiny.
6 The Inquisition and Minor Heresy.
Religious Instruction.
Religious Deviance:.
(a) Blasphemy.
(b) Bigamy and Sexual Promiscuity.
(c) Solicitation.
(d) Superstition and Witchcraft.
7 The Decline and Abolition of the Inquisition.
The Inquisition under the Bourbons.
The Cortes of Cádiz, 1810--1813.
Restoration and Abolition, 1814--1823.
Goya's Inquisition.
The balance of History.
Bibliography and References.
Glossary.
Index.
