The Spanish Inquisition: Ferdinand II And Isabella I

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The Spanish Inquisition, instituted by Ferdinand II and Isabella I in 1478 and authorized by the Pope until its termination in 1834, was a tribunal throughout Spain wherein those who did not belong to the Roman Catholic faith, in other words, heretics, were sought out and forced to confess their behavior lest torture or other sorts of punishment await them by the hand of the inquisitors. In the aftermath of the Spanish Inquisition, differing ideas concerning the Inquisition materialized as various portrayals of the Inquisition arose as time passed. The Inquisition originally held two major objectives: the religious aspect of driving out all beliefs and practices contrary to the Catholic Church’s; and the political aspect of culturally unifying