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Home > A Level > History > Using the passages and your own knowledge, assess the view that the Spanish Inquisition had a major impact on the people of Spain in Phillip II’s reign – 1554-1598 Using the passages and your own knowledge, assess the view that the Spanish Inquisition had a major impact on the people of Spain in Phillip II’s reign – 1554-1598You can download this essay for free. All you need to do is register and submit at least one of your essays to us. Or you can purchase this essay for just $2 instantly without registering
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| Words: 1875 | Submitted: 05-Apr-2011 This is what the first 3 pages of the essay look like    DescriptionUsing the passages and your own knowledge, assess the view that the Spanish Inquisition had a major impact on the people of Spain in Phillip II’s reign – 1554-1598PreviewUsing the passages and your own knowledge, assess the view that the Spanish Inquisition had a major impact on the people of Spain in Phillip II’s reign – 1554-1598The impact the Spanish Inquisition had on the people varies, but they’re efforts were generally insignificant and depended initially on the people’s support. The group most effected were the ordinary Spaniards because of the system of reporting one’s neighbor. But as Elliott says, only in certain regions. The social control also relied on the people and the Edict of Faith, but had a considerable effect – but only on the general population. Moriscos, Conversos and Protestants were dealt with very effectively, but unfortunately before Phillip II’s reign and so ceased to be a problem. The restriction of literary ideas was largely ineffective. The methods of social control employed by the Spanish Inquisition initially had a considerable impact on people’s lives - the decline can be explained by the reliance on the nation’s cooperation. The initial obedience was based on a fictitious reputation the Inquisition had built up for it’s self, the people ultimately saw through it and the system fell apart. The inquisitors had relied too heavily on people denouncing themselves, as confessors were given lighter punishments, or indeed exposing others, in response to the Edict of Faith, the royal decree used to implement social control. The Edict allowed people 30-40 days to come forward themselves or to accuse another, however, the name of the accuser was kept secret which meant that the system was often used to settle private scores. Elliott suggests that this structure had a ‘natural tendency to generate a climate of mistrust and mutual suspicion’. However this account is one sided, as while the inquisition was responsible for creating the system, it was the people who supported and maintained it with their confessions and accusations. But they stopped reporting over time and the system failed. For instance, between 1560 and 1614 an average of 507 cases were examined per year, but this decreased dramatically over the decades. This shows the initial success of the edict but reveals the decline in reporting and the slip in social control. However, one could also credit these early cases with the creation of the reputation responsible for the people coming forward to confess for the subsequent decades. But despite this reputation, the Inquisition was still largely ineffective in practice. For example there were a total of 603 denunciations made by women concerning the sexual misconduct of 343 priests to the tribunal of Cuenca 1561-1650, but only 66 of them received sentences. Given that on average it took two and a half years to bring an offender to trial and ... Download this essay in full now!Just upload at one of your essays to our database and instantly download your selection! Registration takes secondsOr you can download this essay for $2 immediately without registeringComments and reviewsReviews are written by members who have downloaded the essay No comments yet. If you download the essay you can review it afterwards. |
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