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The Inquisition in Spain

In the late fifteenth century the Catholic monarchs of Spain requested a special institution to seek out heretics and relapsed converts. These resources examine the Spanish Inquisition and the Inquisitors who helped make it so notorious.

Inquisitio

The Harley L. McDevitt Collection on the Spanish Inquisition at the University of Notre Dame offers background and useful info on the Inquisition and the collection as well as online documents.

Questions Concerning the Spanish Inquisition

Brief reply by Terry W. Specht to a discussion on CRNET goes some way to putting the Inquisition in historical perspective. Provided by Eternal Word Television Network.

The Spanish Inquisition 1478-1834

A brief introduction to the establishment of the institution by King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella and its structure in 15th and 16th-century Spain, at the Western and Central Europe Chronology site, Northpark Universtiy. (Note: Northpark University has ceased hosting the page; the above link leads to an archived version accessed through the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine.

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