Spanish Inquisition Book Burning

Book burning is the deliberate destruction by fire of books or other written materials usually carried out in a public context.

Spanish inquisition book burning. The burning of books represents an element of censorship and usually proceeds from a cultural religious or political opposition to the materials in question. Joan of arc who was condemned and burned in 1431 in rouen france. The canadian writer lawrence hill recently received the unsettling news that a dutch political group would be assembling on wednesday in amsterdam to burn copies of his novel the book of negroes.

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. Torquemada managed to round up the assassins burning at the stake 42 people in. The first mass book burning in amsterdam took place later in 1526.

Yet despite this relentless campaign protestant writings continued to proliferate. Book burnings from time magazine. In the spanish territory under muslim rule book burning was not unusual.

Spanish heretics suffered this penalty during the inquisition as did french disbelievers and heretics such as st. In 1485 an inquisitor died after being poisoned and another inquisitor was stabbed to death in a church. The date was july 12 1562.

Thereafter public book burning remained part of life in the habsburg netherlands for much of the 16th century anabaptist and calvinist writings later joining the lutheran ones in the flames. 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. In 1555 the protestant bishops hugh latimer nicholas ridley and john hooper were condemned as heretics and burned at the stake in oxford england.

The spanish queen regent maría cristina de borbón issued a decree abolishing the spanish inquisition on july 15 1834. The papal inquisition founded in 1542 and formally known as the congregation of the holy roman and universal inquisition or holy office was reorganized by pope paul vi and renamed the congregation for the doctrine of the faith in 1965. In some cases the destroyed works are irreplaceable and their burning constitutes a severe loss to.