HISTORY
THE RENAISSANCE AND REFORMATION
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convert people to Islam
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convert people to Lutheranism
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reinforce Catholic doctrine by torturing or killing heretics
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spread Protestant doctrine
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Inquisition was a group of institutions within the Catholic Church whose aim was to combat heresy, conducting trials of suspected heretics.
Detailed explanation-2: -Torture was used only to get a confession and wasn’t meant to actually punish the accused heretic for his crimes. Some inquisitors used starvation, forced the accused to consume and hold vast quantities of water or other fluids, or heaped burning coals on parts of their body.
Detailed explanation-3: -There were usually not many cases of this kind, because the chief aim of the inquisitors was to reconcile heretics to the church. On rare occasions, however, large public executions did take place, as at Verona in 1278, when some 200 Cathars were burned.
Detailed explanation-4: -It had to confiscate property and impose fines to pay for its expenses. Its mission was to persecute heresy, but it had strong incentives to look for it in richer places. Its early focus on persecuting Jews and later Protestants led it to target populations with higher levels of education.