inquisition
The term "inquisition" refers to a judicial process or investigation, often carried out by a powerful institution or authority, for the purpose of interrogating, prosecuting, and suppressing individuals or groups suspected of holding, practicing, or spreading beliefs considered heretical or threatening to the established order.
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- conversos and the inquisition
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- crypto-judaism
- decline of the inquisition
- grand inquisitor
- heresiarch
- heresy
- heresy hunting
- heresy trials
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- huguenot persecutions during the inquisition
- index of forbidden books
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- inquisition in the new world (latin america)
- inquisitorial torture methods
- medieval inquisition
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- persecution of muslims during the inquisition
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- religious persecution
- roman inquisition
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