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THE SPANISH INQUISITION
Les Walsh, the Inquisition
Was expecting Alexander Murray to relate the medieval experience to the communist inquisition,but I think he made the point that once the thing was unleashed there was no chance of holding back the `rat-catchers, they had become too powerful.Many jews and conversos did escape to the New World,alas the Inquisition would follow them.
Alec Brady - The Spanish Inquisition
David Mottram asks about the death tolls. Wikipedia says: "Modern scholars with access to actual data have significantly lowered the plausible figure. Some would place the total around 3,000-5,000, with the bulk coming in the early years before the intervention of the pope and the formulation of the strucciones." alisayemini
Jim - Spanish Inqusition
Was the Spanish Inquisition a surprise? Was anyone able to say, "I didn't expect the Spansish Inquisition?" Did anyone ever expect the Spanish Inquisition? What were there chief methods of torture?
The Spanish Inquisition
I was somewhat surprised that the guests seemed to have a remarkably tolerant attitude towards the perpetrators of the Inquisition. I felt like saying 'You wouldn't be so nice about Pope Innocent and Ferdinand and Isabella if it were you, yourself, being tortured or burned at the stake by the Inquisition'.
Martin H Evans - Inquisition
A phrase in the In Our Time Newsletter caught my eye: "Holland was one of the beneficiaries. The Jews who went to Holland are credited with having built up that tiny country to the point where it was able to seek out, as it did, a world role." I see a parallel with Nazi Germany's persecution of the jews, 1933-1938. I have long thought that Hitler and the Nazis lost World War II during that period, by forcing so many good jewish scientists to flee abroad. This denied Germany their skills during the war, and many of them contributed actively to the technology of war on behalf of the Allies.
Anne Philippe - The Spanish Inquisition
Thank you for a truly fascinating programme. The speakers were both knowledgeable and engaging. An extended programme or series of programmes would be a treat.
David Mottram - Inquisition
An interesting discussion of the tangled web that was the inquisistion. What I missed, however, was any indication of the actual numbers of poeple involved. One hears, from some people, claims that as many as millions were killed but the programme talked about most people not being tried and only a fraction of those tried being found guilty and only a proporiton of those being killed - as low as 10%. So how many?
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