Language:
Italian
Year of publication:
1992
Titel der Quelle:
Civiltà Cattolica
Angaben zur Quelle:
3419 (1992) 458-467; 3420: 578-588
Keywords:
Inquisition
Abstract:
Discusses recent attempts, by H. Kamen and E. Peters among others, to invalidate the "Black Legend" describing the Spanish Inquisition as mysterious, totalitarian, and terror-inspiring. Quotes Kamen's "Inquisition and Society in Spain in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries" (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1985), stating that the Inquisition was not a tyrannical institution imposed on a reluctant population but the expression of social prejudices, accepted by Spaniards as a temporary measure of ethnic rather than religious purification against Conversos accused of Judaizing. States, also, that "limpieza de sangre" was the racial expression of socioeconomic envy.
URL:
Locate this publication in Israeli libraries
Permalink