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addn info re books by professors Edward Peters and Henry Kamen
The Office of the Inquisition would not be established until 1542 by Pope Paul III, with its stated objective "to maintain and defend the integrity of the faith and to examine and proscribe errors and false doctrines.'
The Office of the Inquisition would not be established until 1542 by Pope Paul III, with its stated objective "to maintain and defend the integrity of the faith and to examine and proscribe errors and false doctrines.'
In 2000, a team of 30 scholars from around the world came together to investigate the facts of the matter. In 2004 they made their report, an 800-page tome that was unveiled at a press conference in Rome. Its most startling conclusion is that the Inquisition was not as bad as most people had been led to believe. Torture was rare and only about 1 percent of those brought before the Spanish Inquisition were actually executed. Claims that over 8 to 15 million people had been unjustly executed for heresy were debunked as [[falsehood]]s. Among the best recent books on the subject are Edward Peters’s ''Inquisition'' (1988) and Henry Kamen’s ''The Spanish Inquisition'' (1997).
In 2000, a team of 30 scholars from around the world came together to investigate the facts of the matter. In 2004 they made their report, an 800-page tome that was unveiled at a press conference in Rome. Its most startling conclusion is that the Inquisition was not as bad as most people had been led to believe. Torture was rare and only about 1 percent of those brought before the Spanish Inquisition were actually executed. Claims that over 300,000 to 50 million people had been unjustly executed for heresy were debunked as [[falsehood]]s.
Among the best recent books on the subject are by two non-Catholic professors of history. Edward Peters, from the University of Pennsylvania, is the author of ''Inquisition'' (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989). Henry Kamen, a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and professor at the University of Wisconsin – Madison, wrote ''The Spanish Inquisition: A Historical Revision'' (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998). On page 87 of his book, Dr. Peters states:
:“The best estimate is that around 3000 death sentences were carried out in Spain by Inquisitorial verdict between 1550 and 1800, a far smaller number than that in comparable secular courts.”
Likewise, Dr. Kamen states in his book:
:"Taking into account all the tribunals of Spain up to about 1530, it is unlikely that more than two thousand people were executed for heresy by the Inquisition." (p. 60)
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