Inquisition
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An inquisition was a Catholic judicial procedure in which ecclesiastical judges could initiate, investigate and try cases in their jurisdiction. Popularly the Inquisition became the name for various m
Tribunal at the Inquisitor's Palace in Birgu, Malta. Eymeric's manual recommends that the accused be seated on a backless low bench.
The Albigensian massacre (chronicle of Saint-Denis, 14th century, London, British Library)
Waldensians flying on a broom, in a manuscript by Martin Le France (1451)
Pedro Berruguete, Saint Dominic Guzmán presiding over an Auto da fe (c. 1495). (Portuguese for "Act of Faith").
New Christian
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New Christian was a socio-religious designation and legal distinction referring to the population of former Jewish and Muslim converts to Christianity in the Spanish and Portuguese empires, and their
St. John of the Cross (1542–1591), a notable Carmelite friar, Christian mystic, and New Christian of Converso ancestry
Marranos: A secret Passover Seder in Spain during the times of Inquisition, an 1893 painting by Moshe Maimon
The Moorish Proselytes of Archbishop Ximenes, Granada, 1500, by Edwin Long (1829–1891), depicting a mass baptism of former Muslims in the city of Granada, Spain