How Bad was the Spanish Inquisition? (Short Animated Documentary)

Odd time to try to 'dial-down' this clampdown on threats to a the domination of a religion that held sway over Spain's government for so many years

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•Feb 20, 2020

The Spanish Inquisition, to put it mildly, has a bad reputation. It's known for its brutality and repression but just how true is the commonly held opinion of them. Also, everyone expected the Spanish Inquisition.

Sources: > Religious Dissent and Minorities: The Morisco Age by Mercedes García-Arena

> Toleration and Dissent in Sixteenth-Century Spain: The Alternative Tradition by Henry Kamen >The New Social History and the Spanish Inquisition by E. William Monter