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InquisitionTribunal of the Roman Catholic Church established in 1233 to suppress heresy, originally by excommunication. The Inquisition operated in France, Italy, Spain, and the Holy Roman Empire, and was especially active after the Reformation; it was later extended to the Americas. Its trials were conducted in secret, under torture, and penalties ranged from fines, through flogging and imprisonment, to death by burning. During the course of the Spanish Inquisition, until its abolition in 1834, some 60,000 cases were tried. The Roman Inquisition was established in 1542 to combat the growth of Protestantism. Despite bare statistics, however, it is unclear how thorough or effective the Inquisition ever was. |
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| We scientists are more than lab rats, however, and the war conducted by inquisitional fundamentalists also concerns us as a threat to sermon-on-the-mount Christians. 27) Of course, Du Bois and the talented tenth did not make havoc or used inquisitional policies to suppress dissident texts, etc, but the intellectual and artistic atmosphere Du Bois' call has created seems to have provided the necessary conditions for an inquisitional censorship of African American art and literature. For Lutherans this compromise seemed to offer official acceptance in Europe; for the fiercely inquisitional Vatican of Pope Paul TV it was a dirty deal with heretics and merely postponed the final Catholic reckoning with Protestantism. |
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