The Unsuccessful Inquisition in Tudor England

The Spanish Inquisition was tasked with finding heretics and either returning them to their faith or punishing them for their unfaithfulness. This institution lasted for hundreds of years and prosecuted thousands of cases across the Iberian Peninsula. When Mary Tudor took the throne, she instituted her own, smaller inquisition in her attempts to return her people to the Catholic faith. Yet while the Spanish Inquisition was a secretive organization, the trials and arrests in England were far more public and accessible. Much of the methodology and questioning processes were similar, yet Mary’s Inquisition met great resistance and died with her after only a few years. Martyrs were created from the “poor souls” trapped and killed by Bloody Mary and Bloody Bishop Bonner. Secrecy was the Spanish Inquisition’s main weapon and advantage, and Mary’s Inquisition could not and did not succeed without it

The Scientific Inquisition

Nobody expects the Scientific Inquisition

60th Anniversary of the Malta Historical Society : A Commemoration

The paper traces the survival of the archive of the Roman Inquisition in Malta (1561-1798) during the French republican occupation, between June 1798 and September 1800. The primary sources identified and utilised in the study enable a detailed understanding of the archive's content just months following the suppression of the tribunal on the island. The Maltese archive is among the major ones to survive to very substantial extent, even more so since the archive of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (formerly the Congregation of the Roman Inquisition) also holds a substantial collection of Malta material

Inkuisisi Gereja Katolik Terhadap Umat Islamdi Spanyol

For Catholics, Jesus was the only legitimate way to salvation. Then the consequence of that was the creed outside the church as heretical teaching. The Inquisition was a tribunal set up by the church to investigate (inquirere from Latin), whether the statement of faith of the members in accordance with the teachings of the church. Based on historical fact, there are three kinds of Inquisition in church history, namely: 1) the Inquisition held in 1184 in southern France, to handle Catharists. 2) The Roman Inquisition that began in 1542 and 3) Spanish Inquisition that began in 1478, organized by the Spanish government to investigate the conversos ,Catholics who had been the Jewish and Muslim, or those who pretend to be Catholic. There are seventeen courts of the Inquisition in Spain and 10 heretics were burned. In the 1479 because of pressure from the authorities of the Catholic Church in Spain, Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile, Pope Sixtus IV formed an independent Spanish Inquisition, led by the high council and implementing the Great Inquisition

The Medieval Inquisition: Scale-free Networks and the Suppression of Heresy

Qualitative evidence suggests that heresy within the medieval Catholic Church had many of the characteristics of a scale-free network. From the perspective of the Church, heresy can be seen as a virus. The virus persisted for long periods of time, breaking out again even when the Church believed it to have been eradicated. A principal mechanism of heresy was through a small number of individuals with very large numbers of social contacts. Initial attempts by the Inquisition to suppress the virus by general persecution, or even mass slaughtering, of populations thought to harbour the "disease" failed. Gradually, however, the Inquisition learned about the nature of the social networks by which heresy both spread and persisted. Eventually, a policy of targeting key individuals was implemented, which proved to be much more successful.Comment: 12 page

The Chronicle of William Pelhisson: A Microcosm of Early Thirteenth Century Papal Inquisition

This study will use Pelhisson’s account of the Toulouse inquisition of 1230-1238 as a case study into the causes of the inquisition, the mindset of the Dominicans who carried it out, and the institutionalization of the inquisition process

Inquisition

Gemäß dem Wesen des Exploitationfilms, alle denkbaren Zwangssysteme dahingehend auszuwerten, wie viele Schauwerte sich aus ihnen gewinnen lassen, muß die geheimnisvolle, nur Eingeweihten zugängliche Welt des Klosters ein besonderes Faszinosum darstellen. Der sogenannte Nunsploitationfilm wagt einen „Blick dahinter“, der jedem passionierten Voyeur aus dem Herzen sprechen muß: unterdrückte Sexualität, Kontrolle, Machtmißbrauch, Strafen, Demütigung, Hilflosigkeit, Gefangenschaft. Analog zu den militärischen Männerbünden mit ihren entindividualisierenden Unterwerfungsritualen weckt die Welt der erzwungenen Keuschheit finstere Phantasien

The Dark and Middle Ages

For the most part only Plato\u27s teachings supported by a limited version of Aristotelian cosmology supportive of Platonism survived the decline of ancient Greek philosophy during the Roman Empire. Christianity later prevailed, and toward the end of the Middle Ages Aristotle’s secular perspective was only taken into account by Arab philosophers such as Averroes and Avicenna. After the collapse of Arab civilization during the twelfth century, the secular concept of a double truth between belief and reason put philosophy on equal footing with religion in such universities as Cordoba and the University of Paris. After a large assortment of ancient Greek texts were shipped from Constantinople to Italy in 1453 to prevent their destruction by pagan invaders, so-called Nominalists among European philosophers such as Duns Scotus and William of Ockham featured the independent analysis of the universe based on assumptions already pursued by Aristotle. In effect Greek philosophy in its entirety came to be “resurrected,” setting the stage for the inception of science as exemplified by Copernicus, Galileo, and Bacon