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[147] [page needed] [148] According to some scholars, the Spanish Inquisition engaged in torture less often and with greater care than secular courts. [149] [150] Kamen and other scholars cite the lack of evidence for the use of torture. Their conclusions are based on research uncovered in newly opened files of the Spanish Inquisition's archives.
Saint Dominic anachronistically presiding over an auto de fe, by Pedro Berruguete (around 1495) [1]. An auto-da-fé (/ ˌ ɔː t oʊ d ə ˈ f eɪ, ˌ aʊ t-/ AW-toh-də-FAY, OW-; from Portuguese auto da fé or Spanish auto de fe ([ˈawto ðe ˈfe], meaning 'act of faith') was the ritual of public penance, carried out between the 15th and 19th centuries, of condemned heretics and apostates ...
The rack is a torture device that consists of an oblong, rectangular, usually wooden frame, slightly raised from the ground, with a roller at one, or both, ends, having at one end a fixed bar to which the legs were fastened, and at the other a movable bar to which the hands were tied. The victim's feet are fastened to one roller, and the wrists ...
The Spanish Inquisition, established by the Catholic Monarchs in 1478 in order to "purify" Spain and impose Catholicism, lasted 350 years until it was abolished (de facto) in 1834. [5] The Palace of the Forgotten has on display more than 70 instruments of torture used by the European and Spanish court of the Inquisition.
The Palace of Inquisition was a torture chamber in Cartagena, Colombia, built under orders of Philip III, [34] which served as headquarters for the Spanish Inquisition. It was used to torture Jews [35] and other non-Catholics. [36] Approximately 800 individuals were put to death there.
Gustav Henningsen and Jaime Contreras studied the records of the Spanish Inquisition, which list 44,674 cases of which 826 resulted in executions in person and 778 in effigy (i.e. a straw dummy was burned in place of the person). [22] William Monter estimated there were 1000 executions in Spain between 1530–1630 and 250 between 1630 and 1730 ...
The Spanish Inquisition bound the prisoner face-upward to the rack with his bare feet secured in a stocks. The soles of the feet were basted with lard or oil and slowly barbecued over a brazier of burning coals. A screen could be interposed between the feet and the coals to modulate the exposure, while a bellows controlled the intensity of the ...
The court of the Inquisition questioned him two days later, and although he denied any guilt related to the act, he was confined in a prison cell where he remained for 22 months, awaiting trial. He was interrogated for the second time on August 10, 1487 , on which occasion he was subjected to the system of torture known as garrucha .