Going Medieval

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The Roman Inquisition was installed to battle heresy. The Spanish Inquisition was a whole new level. It adjudicated heresy, bigamy, sodomy, crypto-Jews, crypto-Muslims, and "Erasmists" (the word they gave to anything resembling Protestantism, even reformist Catholics). It maintained the caste system of the Spanish Empire: "Pure bloods" on top, the converted "impure" below. It socially engineered the fear of non-conformity into multi cultural people.

Torquemada ran the show. The civil authorities merely carried out the wishes of the church. The church had the rule that they wern't allowed to shed blood so the civil authorities carried out the sentences delivered by trials held by the church.

Being a good Christian,Torquemada said that no blood must be shed;however,he conceded that people did often die under torture. If that happened,the inquisitor must immediately seek absolution from a fellow priest. Torquemada gave all his priests the power to absolve one another of murder.

studying Frankish nobility they would basically gather small armies and go kill each other and burn down one another's estates over the most trivial states. The relations between nobles was like soap opera, and nobles were really the only people that mattered.
The states were really only centralized in that when the monarch was strong, nobles pretty much expressed deference to them and were loyal to them, but otherwise it was every noble for themselves. The internal state of affairs were nearly anarchic.

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>>1138685
That Vietnam thing hit me hard, never though about it that way. Anyone recommend the book that is originally from?

>>1138518
>2000-5000 executions in +300 years
>evil

Don't you have an old lady to burn as a witch proddy?