HISTORY
THE RENAISSANCE AND REFORMATION
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A journey undertaken to worship at a holy place
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A series of investigations designed to find and judge heretics
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The Latin word meaning “Great Charter”
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The Spanish word for “Reconquest”
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Detailed explanation-1: -An inquisition was a process that developed to investigate alleged instances of crimes. Its use in ecclesiastical courts was not at first directed to matters of heresy, but a broad assortment of offenses such as clandestine marriage and bigamy.
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: -The Inquisition was originally intended primarily to identify heretics among those who converted from Judaism and Islam to Catholicism.
Detailed explanation-4: -Inquisition was an institution of the Catholic Church to deal with heresies beliefs in opposition to the Catholic faith. Those found guilty and who recanted were awarded milder punishments and imprisonment. Those who refused to recant were burnt at the stake.
Detailed explanation-5: -The Roman Catholic Church had established inquisitions in the past. Taking their name from the Latin verb inquiro (“inquire into”), these commissions had authority to question supposed heretics about their religious practices and loyalties starting in the 13th century.