“The practice of “tolerance,” in the sense of allowing people to dissent, did not of course exist in any part of Christian Europe in the 1500s. It came into being only centuries later, when some states conceded legal rights to… — Henry Kamen Copy Share Image
“Both defenders and opponents of the Inquisition have often accepted without question the image of an omniscient, omnipotent tribunal whose fingers reached into every corner of the land. The extravagant rhetoric on both sides has been one of the major obstacles to understanding. For the Inquisition to have been as powerful as suggested, the fifty or so inquisitors in Spain… — Henry Kamen Copy Share
“By its vigilance and by coordinating its efforts throughout the peninsula, it may be argued that the Inquisition checked the seeds of heresy before… — Henry Kamen Copy Share Image
“The practice of “tolerance,” in the sense of allowing people to dissent, did not of course exist in any part of Christian Europe in… — Henry Kamen Copy Share Image
