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Nobody Expects the Spanish Inquisition: Cultural Contexts in Monty Python
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Nobody Expects the Spanish Inquisition: Cultural Contexts in Monty PythonNobody Expects the Spanish Inquisition: Cultural Contexts in Monty Python

This volume offers a distinguished discussion of Monty Python’s oeuvre, exhibiting highly varied approaches from a number of perspectives, including gender studies, post-structuralism, psychoanalysis, and cultural studies. Featuring a foreword by Python alum Terry Jones, Nobody Expects the Spanish Inquisition will appeal to anyone interested in cultural history and media studies, as well as the general fans of Monty Python who want to know more about the impact of this groundbreaking group.
 
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Tags: studies, Python, Monty, Spanish, Inquisition, Nobody
Heaven or Heresy: A History of the Inquisition
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Heaven or Heresy: A History of the InquisitionHeaven or Heresy: A History of the Inquisition
Thomas F. Madden

For many, the Inquisition conjures Gothic images of cloaked figures and barbarous torture chambers. So enmeshed is this view of the Inquisition in popular culture that such scenes play out even in comedies such as Mel Brooks' History of the World and Monty Python's Flying Circus. But is this a fair portrayal?

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Tags: Inquisition, History, Heaven, Heresy, comedies, Brooks
Crusade, Heresy and Inquisition in the Lands of the Crown of Aragon 1167 - 1276
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Crusade, Heresy and Inquisition in the Lands of the Crown of Aragon 1167 - 1276Crusade, Heresy and Inquisition in the Lands of the Crown of Aragon 1167 - 1276

Based on extensive study of the primary and secondary sources, Damian J. Smith here provides the first full account of the combined influence of crusade, heresy and inquisition in and about the lands of the Crown of Aragon until the death of James I the Conqueror in 1276. This work deals with the gradual loss of influence of the Crown in Provence and Languedoc culminating in the treaty of Corbeil in 1258. It then investigates the extent of heresy in the lands of the Crown and in other areas of Christian Spain. In the final part, the origins and development of the Aragonese inquisition are discussed in detail with a particular emphasis on the role of Ramon de Penyafort.
 
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Tags: Crown, Aragon, inquisition, lands, influence, Crusade
Daily Life During the Spanish Inquisition
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Daily Life During the Spanish InquisitionDaily Life During the Spanish InquisitionThe life of persecuted minorities, as well as that of the wealthy and the ordinary people of Spain during the Spanish Inquisition, comes alive in this illuminating account. For three and a half centuries, the Inquisition permeated every aspect of daily life in early modern Spain. This history depicts in graphic terms the dangers faced by Jews and Muslims and their suffering at the handsof the Inquisitors, as well as the struggle for survival of the lower classes and the ostentatious display of wealth of the high nobility.  

 
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Tags: Inquisition, Spanish, Spain, suffering, handsof, Spanish, Inquisition, Daily, During
The Spanish Inquisition [History; Advanced Listening; mp3]
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The Spanish Inquisition
The Inquisition has its roots in the Latin word 'inquisito' which means inquiry. The Romans used the inquisitorial process as a form of legal procedure employed in the search for evidence. Once Rome's religion changed to Christianity under Constantine, it retained the inquisitorial trial method but also developed brutal means of dealing with heretics who went against the doctrines of the new religion. Efforts to suppress religious freedom were initially ad hoc until the establishment of an Office of Inquisition in the Middle Ages, founded in response to the growing Catharist heresy in South West France.

The Spanish Inquisition set up in 1478 surpassed all Inquisitorial activity that had preceded it in terms of its reach and length. For 350 years under Papal Decree, Jews, then Muslims and Protestants were put through the Inquisitional Court and condemned to torture, imprisonment, exile and death.

How did the early origins of the Inquisition in Medieval Europe spread to Spain? What were the motivations behind the systematic persecution of Jews, Muslims and Protestants? And what finally brought about an end to the Spanish Inquisition 350 years after it had first been decreed?

 
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Tags: Inquisition, Spanish, Muslims, Protestants, religion