| Summary: | A history of the Inquisition in Spain from the 13th century to its abolition in 1834. States that the true Spanish Inquisition was organized in 1480 against Converso Judaizers. It succeeded in implementing the expulsion of the Jews in 1492 and grew ever more powerful through the centuries. Discusses Ferrant Martínez's anti-Jewish sermons and the wave of violence and forced conversions in 1391 which initiated the Converso problem, which was more a matter of social success than of religious purity. Stresses that the Inquisition was persecuting not Jews, but heretics within the Church (i.e. Judaizers). Describes the plight of Spanish and Portuguese Conversos at the hands of the Inquisition. Traces, also, Inquisition activities against Conversos in Mexico and Peru.
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