Leading historians of this institution include Henry Kamen and Benzion Netanyahu, the father of the Israeli prime minister.
Leading historians of this institution include Henry Kamen and Benzion Netanyahu, the father of the Israeli prime minister. Abolished in 1834, it was overseen by a five-member commission known as the Suprema, which sought to ensure the observance of "terms of grace" for those who came before it. Among its actions were several edicts against the Alumbrados, or Illuminati, and its last action was the garroting of the deist Cayetano Ripoll in 1826. Juan Antonio Llorente, a former Suprema secretary, claimed that it killed thirty thousand people between 1480 and 1808, though other scholars and the infamous "black legend" hold that many more were killed under its most famous leader, Tomas de Torquemada. FTP, name this effort to stamp out religious heresy on the Iberian peninsula.
Leading historians of this institution include Henry Kamen and Benzion Netanyahu, the father of the Israeli prime minister.
the Spanish Inquisition (prompt on Inquisition)