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The Spanish Inquisition

Helen Rawlings (Author)

9780631205999, Wiley

Hardback, published 21 April 2005

192 pages
25 x 10 x 1.5 cm, 0.369 kg

"Rawlings has made a valuable contribution to the field. She has successfully constructed a thought-provoking, analytical précis of some of the most essential studies of her subject. She has emphasized the complicated and contingent nature of the Inquisition’s practices in a manner accessible to any interested reader." (European History Quarterly, January 2009)

"Offers insights into a much mythologised and maligned phenomenon and, historiographically, it's bang up to date." (BBC History Magazine)

"Helen Rawling's The Spanish Inquisition is an excellent introduction to this complex and controversial subject." (H-Net Reviews)

"Solid virtues and thoughtful care ... have gone into this contribution." (Bulletin of Spanish Studies)

"Makes for compelling reading and for a perfect test case against which to measure all the revisionist history that Rawlings so aptly summarises." (Journal of Ecclesiastical History)

This book challenges the reputation of the Spanish Inquisition as an instrument of religious persecution, torture and repressionand looks 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 instrument of religious persecution, torture and repression.
  • Looks at the wider role of the Inquisition as an educative force in society.
  • Draws on the findings of recent research by American, British and European scholars.
  • Includes original documentary evidence in translation.

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

Subject Areas: History [HB]
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