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Medieval Inquisition. Spanish Inquisition. Goa Inquisition. The Portuguese Inquisition ( Portuguese: Inquisição Portuguesa ), officially known as the General Council of the Holy Office of the Inquisition in Portugal, was formally established in Portugal in 1536 at the request of King John III.
La Inquisición Portuguesa (en portugués: Inquisição Portuguesa) fue un sistema formal de tribunales, denunciantes y calabozos, que actuó en Portugal y las colonias de ultramar del Imperio Portugués, entre 1536 y 1821, con el fin de perseguir a los no católicos, castigar la disidencia religiosa interna católica y, en general, erradicar las prácti...
Spanish Inquisition, Portuguese Inquisitions, New-Christians, Extraditions. El año de 1994 constituye un hito en el estudio de la Inquisición en la Edad Moderna, gracias a la publicación de la História das Inquisições. Portugal, Espan-ha e Itália de Francisco Bethencourt.
5 de may. de 2001 · The Inquisition had been established in Portugal since 1547, on the Spanish model. Its apparatus of officials and informers, its courts and dungeons and torture chambers, its carefully stage-managed show trials and horrific burnings at the stake, inspired the same dread as the later secret police of totalitarian systems in Portugal ...
Spanish Inquisition, (1478–1834), judicial institution ostensibly established to combat heresy in Spain. In practice, the Spanish Inquisition served to consolidate power in the monarchy of the newly unified Spanish kingdom, but it achieved that end through infamously brutal methods.
Though primarily focused on the Spanish inquisitions of the fifteenth to nineteenth centuries, attention is also paid to medieval inquisitions as well as to Portuguese, Roman and various New World inquisitions that existed from the sixteenth century onwards.
Learn about this topic in these articles: discussed in biography. In Alexandre Herculano …da inquisição em Portugal (1854–59; History of the Origin and Establishment of the Inquisition in Portugal).Based on hitherto unknown documents, it attempted to demonstrate that royal absolutism and clerical power had been allies in the confiscation of the property of the “New Christians ...
