![]() ![]() Joseph Perez tells the history of the Spanish Inquisition from its medieval beginnings to its nineteenth-century ending. ![]() Napoleon tried to abolish it in 1808, and failed. The Inquisition policed what was written, read and taught, and kept an eye on sexual behaviour. Two hundred lashes were a minor punishment 31,913 were led to the stake at public displays, the last a mad witch in 1781. Those denounced were guilty unless they could prove their innocence. Children informed on their parents, merchants on their rivals, and priests upon their bishops. Next in line were humanists and Lutherans. It then turned on Spanish Jews in general, sending three hundred thousand into exile. ![]() Established by papal bull in 1478, the first task of the Spanish Inquisition was to question Jewish converts to Christianity and to expose and execute those found guilty of reversion. ![]()
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