Persecution. Torture. Death. Secrecy. Thousands of Jews forcibly converted to Christianity in Spain and Portugal were subjected to religious persecution for continuing to adhere to their ancestral faith. The Spanish and Portuguese Inquisitions lasted for centuries, and when their attention on Judaizers ended, they switched to other concerns including Protestantism, Bigamy, and Blasphemy. The Inquisition typically conjures up images of intolerance, persecution, and violence and rightly so. Many people think of it as a reflection of the spiritual, scholastic, and scientific darkness of the medieval period. Hundreds of thousands of trials were processed during its lengthy reign ... Discover the fascinating history of the Inquisition.
Author(s): Juan Marcos Bejarano Gutierrez
Publisher: Yaron Publishing
Year: 2017
Language: English
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Pages: 153
Tags: Rise, Inquisition, Spanish and Portuguese
Introduction......Page 10
Christianity and Forced Conversions......Page 16
Jewish Attempts at Rejudaizing Converts......Page 22
The Case of Salves Barbe......Page 24
The Case of Johannes......Page 25
The Case of Baruch......Page 26
Early Inquisitional Tribunals in Aragon......Page 29
The Inquisition Reinvigorated......Page 36
The Solution to the Converso Problem......Page 39
The Inquisition Unleashed......Page 40
The Appointment of Thomas de Torquemada......Page 45
The Inquisition in Aragon, Catalonia, and Valencia......Page 47
The Death of the Inquisitor Pedro Arbues......Page 48
Opposition to the Inquisition in Toledo......Page 49
Opposition to the Inquisition in Catalonia......Page 51
Music as Evidence of Judaizing......Page 52
The Edicts of Expulsion......Page 54
The Next Phase......Page 58
The Edict of Expulsion and the Number of the Exiles......Page 59
Financial Challenges, Expulsion, and Conversion......Page 62
The Kingdom of Portugal......Page 66
The Inquisition’s Uncompromising Pursuit......Page 72
Charles V and Inquisitional Policy......Page 74
The Inquisition under the Reign of the Philips......Page 77
The New World......Page 79
The Inquisition in Portugal......Page 81
Continued Struggles under the Inquisition......Page 83
The Papal Bull of May 23, 1536......Page 84
The Lisbon Placard......Page 86
The First Portuguese Auto da Fé......Page 87
The Papal Bull of August 22, 1546......Page 88
The Submission of the Curia......Page 89
The General Pardon of 1604......Page 90
Attempts to Restrain the Tribunal......Page 91
The Portuguese Inquisition and Portuguese Colonies......Page 92
The Inquisition in Rome......Page 93
Menasseh Ben Israel and the Inquisition......Page 94
Dom Diego da Annunciacao Justiano......Page 100
The Perspective of Yitzhak Baer and Haim Beinart......Page 105
Benzion Netanyahu’s and Norman Roth’s Challenge......Page 106
Samuel Usque’s Description of the Inquisition......Page 110
Afterword......Page 111
Bibliography......Page 112
Index......Page 128
