The New Monarchy, 1492 - 1500 (Part 3)
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New Monarchy, 1492 - 1500
The establishment of the Inquisition:
- 13th C. institution that had operated in Aragon
- Established 1478
- Not operated F + I came to throne
- Designed to deal with Conversos
- 1478 = Pope Sixtus IV gave F + I papal bull
- 1481 = Inquisitors appointed in Seville
- Feb 1481 - 1486 = 6 conversos burned
- 1482 = Sixtus IV denounced
- 1483 extended in Aragon
- Governed by Inquisition General = Torquemada than Cisneros
- Council of State = General Inquisition + Council of Suprema
- Auto de Fe
- Heretics = burned
- Exaggerated by Protestant propaganda
- 1480 - 1488 = 700 + conversos burnt
- 1483 - 1498 = 2000 people burned
- Kamen attacks on conversos "amounted to a vertiable holocaust"
Expulsion of the Jews & religious social implications:
- 1492
- Alhambra Decree = 1492
- Jews had good positions = Doctors, financiers, traders + artisans
- Conversos = Jews who converted to Christianity to avoid perseuction = Significant threat
- Perception supports evidence that they kept many links to Jewish culture + continue to practice in secret = Significant threat
- Expelled from Anadalusia in 1483
- Heavily taxed
- Auto de Fe = burning of heretics = used by Inquistion
- 1490 = 2,000 Jews had been put to death by Inquisition
- Potential source of wealth providing both income + goods
- Inquisition recommended the Expulsion
- 200,000 offered significant sums of money to F + I in order to stay
- Every territory of Spain, except Naples, was involved in te policy of expulsion of 1492
- Althogether the Jews who left Spain were approximately only three per cent of the total population
- Although this seems a…
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