Book Burning Spanish Inquisition
He also mentions the talmud being burned for blasphemy in 1141.
Book burning spanish inquisition. If you google anything related to book burning this image or others related to nazi censorship appear primarily. These are groups and incidents nobody wants to be associated with. The date was july 12 1562.
Even the president of the united states attempted to prevent this case of book burning. In 1492 after the spanish conquered granada the last muslim kingdom in western europe they allegedly emptied many of the city s treasured libraries and set their contents all to flame. In the three cases of the spanish inquisition the french revolution and nazism book burnings and iconoclasm were to varying degrees tribal alternatively racial or ideological in origin but the nature of book burnings and iconoclasm lends itself to ideology.
In these three cases heretical thought the ideas of the ancien régime and. Hill references infamous book burning incidents executed by the nazi party and the spanish inquisition. In front of the monastery of san miguel arcangel in the center of the maya town of maní a franciscan friar named diego de landa was about to perform a great auto de fé a ceremony commonly used in the spanish inquisition to punish heretics but in this ceremony there were to be no people burned at the stake.