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Inquisition on Display.(Periscope; The Dark Ages)(Brief article)
Byline: Barbie Nadeau
The Inquisition has long been a byword for fear and terror. Its tribunals, set up to ensure that "heretics" did not undermine the Roman Catholic Church's authority, tortured thousands of Christians, Muslims and Jews during the Middle Ages. Often, the best the condemned could hope for was that they'd be strangled before being burned at the stake.
Now, after centuries of secrecy on the subject, the Vatican has unveiled a temporary "Rare and Precious" exhibition of Inquisition artifacts at Rome's Vittoriano Museum to "expose some myths" about this dark past. While the show fails to include racks and other torture devices, it successfully lays out the powerful control that the church exerted over medieval Europeans' lives.
Documents on display include instructions for persecuting Protestants, regulations on ...
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- Newspaper article from: Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA) Rea, Steven July 26, 2007 700+ words
...about the Spanish Inquisition when he was a student...about the Spanish Inquisition, and I saw the parallels...thought that the dark ages of Inquisitions and all this stuff...ambitious and wily Inquisition priest, Stellan...
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- Magazine article from: The Humanist Kevorkian, Jack November 1, 1994 700+ words
...are still deeply mired in the Dark Ages. Superhighways crossing each...re dangerous tools of the Dark Ages. The Inquisition is still alive and well. The...certainly wouldn't have the Inquisition. So all I'm doing is what...
- The Spanish Inquisition.
- Magazine article from: Commonweal Bankston, Carl L., III August 14, 1998 700+ words
...sixteenth century, so did the Inquisition. In the late sixteenth century...left to root out and the Inquisition quieted down once again...then, there were different Inquisitions at different times. In response...those who claim that the Inquisition stifled literature and culture...
- The office of inquisition and medieval heresy: the transition from personal to...
- Magazine article from: The Journal of Ecclesiastical History Kieckhefer, Richard January 1, 1995 700+ words
...convenience `the Inquisition' is less satisfactory than `inquisitions' or `repression...speak of `the Inquisition' at work whenever...full-fledged Inquisitions. To speak of...representing `the Inquisition', for example...
- Helen Rawlings. The Spanish Inquisition.(Book review)
- Magazine article from: Teaching History: A Journal of Methods Garza, Kimberlee D. September 22, 2007 700+ words
Helen Rawlings. The Spanish Inquisition. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing...interest reader, The Spanish Inquisition is written almost in textbook...understanding of the structure of the Inquisition as an institution; when and where...
- Vatican: Inquisition victims of torture and the stake were fewer than many...
- News wire article from: The America's Intelligence Wire June 15, 2004 700+ words
...presented researchers' findings that the Inquisition's victims of torture and burning at...opinion of the public, the image of the Inquisition represents almost the symbol ... of...the ages, including abuses during the Inquisition, a systematic crackdown by Church officials...
- Vatican: Inquisition Not So Widespread.
- News wire article from: The America's Intelligence Wire June 15, 2004 700+ words
...heretics by church tribunals during the Inquisition was not as widespread as commonly believed...opinion of the public, the image of the Inquisition represents almost the symbol ... of...faith, including abuses during the Inquisition, a systematic crackdown by church officials...
- Vatican: Inquisition Was Not Widespread.
- News wire article from: The America's Intelligence Wire June 15, 2004 700+ words
...heretics by church tribunals during the Inquisition was not as widespread as commonly believed...opinion of the public, the image of the Inquisition represents almost the symbol ... of...faith, including abuses during the Inquisition, a systematic crackdown by church officials...
- The Inquisition's story is in the details.(Interview)
- News wire article from: Seattle Times (Seattle, WA) Rahner, Mark May 9, 2007 700+ words
...knows: "Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!" But thanks to Seattle-based filmmaker...engrossing four-part "Secret Files of the Inquisition" begins at 9 tonight on PBS. I extracted...s archive of the Holy Office of the Inquisition stimulated us to locate records of the...
- Inquisitive about the Inquisition?
- Magazine article from: Catholic Insight Kennedy, Leonard November 1, 1999 700+ words
...civil leaders. The Inquisition was begun by Pope Gregory...been written on the Inquisition. But let us recall...were three distinct Inquisitions. The medieval one began in 1231. The Spanish Inquisition began in the 1480s to...
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