Inquisition
Bartolomé Carranza
The Dominican archbishop who helped restore Catholicism in Mary’s England and was then himself imprisoned by the Spanish Inquisition for seventeen years.
Giovanni Morone
The diplomat-cardinal who was imprisoned by Paul IV on suspicion of heresy and then steered the Council of Trent to its close.
Inquisitions
The Inquisitions of the Roman Catholic Church: their background, development, methods, and justification, their part in the persecution of the Reformation, and a list of the principal tribunals from 1184 to the present.
Inquisitions
The Inquisitions of the Roman Catholic Church: their background, development, methods, and justification, their part in the persecution of the Reformation, and a list of the principal tribunals from 1184 to the present.
Philip II
The king who crushed the Spanish Protestants, made war on the Dutch, and sent the Armada against England.
Pope Paul IV
Gian Pietro Carafa, architect of the Roman Inquisition, who as pope issued the first papal Index of Prohibited Books.
Pope Paul IV
Gian Pietro Carafa, architect of the Roman Inquisition, who as pope issued the first papal Index of Prohibited Books.
Pope Pius V
The Dominican inquisitor turned pope who excommunicated Elizabeth I and fixed the Tridentine catechism, breviary, and missal.
Pope Pius V
The Dominican inquisitor turned pope who excommunicated Elizabeth I and fixed the Tridentine catechism, breviary, and missal.
The Duke of Alba
Philip II’s iron general, whose Council of Troubles brought terror to the Protestant Netherlands.
