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Torture during the Middle Ages: The Spanish Inquisition in Spain

INQUISITION: It is an institution created in the Middle Ages where tortured and sentenced people accused of heresy. In the church the penalty for heresy was excommunication. Heretics were considered enemies of the state. The church in general disapproved of the punishment. SPANISH Inquisition


: Founded in 1478 adopted by the Catholic Kings (King Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabel of Castile). During the Inquisition, all Jews converted to Christianity by force. The forced the people and priests.
Jews were converted to Christians were called New Christians or Marranos. Once established as Christians, were entitled to exercise all kinds of charges, including counselors could become the king and
many Jews could become philosophers and scientists, especially in medicine, but most were not wealthy were simple artisans and shopkeepers. When things went wrong as famine, pestilence ... among others, they blamed the Jews, so the Jews played the role of "scapegoat." In Spain in 1391 was a persecution of Jews were murdered and those who were saved were those who were baptized, to escape death.
Over the century the oldest Christian begin to feel envious of the new Christians and making claims against them. Torquemada listened to the demands of the early Christians and preach for the creation of an inquisition in Castile. The new Christian ceremonies were different from the early Christians. The Jews who were converted to Christianity, was distrusted in their Christian faith.
The Jews expelled from Spain allowed them to take their property, and enter them in the bank.


TORTURE: The act to harm a person physically and psychologically by causing all sorts of instruments unbearable pain in a totally cruel and ruthless. This is used for all kinds of torture and machines to cause all the pain possible.

Physical damage such as bruises, cuts, tears, burns, electric shocks, drowning, rape, dislocation of body parts ... Damage
psychological isolation, insults, making them feel guilty ... TYPES

instruments used to torture during interrogation JEWS DURING THE INQUISITION:

APLASTACABEZAS:
consisted in destroying the bones of the skull, but today is not used.

THE PONY:
consisted of ropes tied with people stretching the limbs and until it is dislocated or deformed. It was used mainly in France and Germany.

THE TORMENT OF THE RAT:
consisted of placing a rat in a cage on a person, not supplying the rat food so having no food and very hungry rat. Ate to the individual, devouring his gut, liver .... ultimately its organs, and even sometimes the rat out the other end of the body so the person dying slowly.

THE IRON MAIDEN:
consisted of putting a person in a kind of coffin, which had some nails that crossed according to the person slowly was closing the door, you changed the nails position to cause pain throughout the body and thus have a slower death.

COLD DROP:
consisted in taking the individual a cold drop on top of the head to get to the point that he made a hole in the head, for this we need to take the drop for a long time, and generate pain for a long time.

the stick:
consisted of laying a person on an instrument of iron subjected to could not be moved. Once placed in the correct position an iron nail across his neck, suffocating and destroying the bone marrow, was a quick but very painful death.



From our point sight of the torture that they did to the Jews during the Inquisition were very cruel and ruthless. We feel horrible as these people died and unbearable pain they felt. Luckily today are no longer practiced, nor are there such torture.