Though it was set up to extirpate heresy, this was heresy treated as a crime against the civil order. Though run by Church officials, the Inquisition was more an arm of Madrid than of Rome the Spanish king and government exercised control over it as far as anyone did.Several interesting points that arose for me: Pérez gives plenty of detail on how it operated, as a powerful and brutal autnomous judicial system within the Spanish state, from 1480 to 1834 (admittedly rather gutted of its authority in its final decades). NwhyteI didn't know a lot about the Spanish Inquisition before reading this fairly comprehensive but also short (221 pages) account.
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