The Deadly History of the Spanish Inquisition

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  • Опубликовано: 10 май 2024
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  • @ghaznavid
    @ghaznavid 20 дней назад +1137

    I wasn't expecting the Spanish Inquisition.

    • @breadmoth6443
      @breadmoth6443 20 дней назад +226

      nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!

    • @alexander-mauricemillamlae4567
      @alexander-mauricemillamlae4567 20 дней назад +24

      the spanish inquisition would still be around if they'd had trained drop bears as inquisitors.

    • @Burgo361
      @Burgo361 20 дней назад +53

      I was way too slow to say this, I guess I wasn't ready for the Spanish Inquisition

    • @4362mont
      @4362mont 20 дней назад +41

      No-one does.

    • @chcknpie04
      @chcknpie04 20 дней назад +37

      Our chief weapon is fear!

  • @COSMOKRAT_616
    @COSMOKRAT_616 20 дней назад +315

    We apologise for all the comments about not expecting the spanish inquisition. Those responsible have been sacked.

    • @brera2434
      @brera2434 18 дней назад +18

      But what about the moose!?

    • @jamesindustryst
      @jamesindustryst 17 дней назад +16

      Moose bites can be pretty nasty…

    • @bogisimonsen471
      @bogisimonsen471 16 дней назад +1

      Correct but that is nothing compair to the bite of the Nine of dimonds.. ​@@jamesindustryst

    • @RossTheBossTrotter
      @RossTheBossTrotter 16 дней назад +4

      Sincerely, Gary the Wonder LLama......

    • @daydays12
      @daydays12 15 дней назад +4

      I should hope so. The lack of empathy is appalling

  • @gregbors8364
    @gregbors8364 20 дней назад +562

    I wasn’t expecting so many comments about not expecting the Spanish Inquisition

  • @juanlapuente833
    @juanlapuente833 19 дней назад +79

    I wasn't expecting this objectivity

  • @adriangarrido8745
    @adriangarrido8745 15 дней назад +30

    Thank you Simon for sharing some knowledge about the Dark Legend that has been placed on Spain for centuries now.

  • @gjergjcamaj5770
    @gjergjcamaj5770 19 дней назад +82

    Finally an honest overview of the spanish inquisition.

    • @stephendavies6949
      @stephendavies6949 18 дней назад +7

      I wasn't expecting that

    • @teknoaija1762
      @teknoaija1762 15 дней назад

      As honest as any catholic apology video.After all,catholic church has had its controversies again and again.Do you trust their child rape records?O h,there aren t any.

    • @davedavid7061
      @davedavid7061 12 дней назад +1

      It would make a smashing movie

  • @Germanicus2415
    @Germanicus2415 20 дней назад +224

    Spanish inquisition was actually pretty tame compared to the inquisition in England or protestant countries.

    • @SolverCyn-vx1kv
      @SolverCyn-vx1kv 19 дней назад +21

      Yep, and the witch thing didn't last long either because that was stupid mainly

    • @sizanogreen9900
      @sizanogreen9900 19 дней назад +7

      I was not expecting that.

    • @SolverCyn-vx1kv
      @SolverCyn-vx1kv 19 дней назад +19

      @@sizanogreen9900 Yep, history has many lies and hidden truths

    • @horizonkage
      @horizonkage 19 дней назад

      Catholics just being Catholics.
      That is, violent liars when they have power. Let's not return to this.

    • @AmonAnon-vw3hr
      @AmonAnon-vw3hr 19 дней назад

      Wait till you hear the truth about life under a caliphate.

  • @carlkamuti
    @carlkamuti 20 дней назад +149

    13:50 You got your maths wrong, 0.015% of 87,000 would have been 13 people. The true percentage of death sentences is 1.5%

    • @maytheus
      @maytheus 20 дней назад +30

      Came here to say the same thing. Errata like this makes the rest of the information less reliable. They really need to work on accuracy in the Whistlerverse. Where is Lorelei to call out these blunders?

    • @Asiago9
      @Asiago9 20 дней назад +17

      Was probably just forgetting to multiply by 100, leaving it in decimal instead of percentage, not that big of a mistake

    • @Southlander1000
      @Southlander1000 20 дней назад +33

      @@maytheus I'll let you in on a secret about historians: a significant number of us are very poor at math. Don't let it throw you.

    • @timotheos8289
      @timotheos8289 19 дней назад +11

      It’s a simple mistake but a HUGE one!

    • @docverit2668
      @docverit2668 19 дней назад

      ruclips.net/video/qhlAqklH0do/видео.html

  • @arpan9937
    @arpan9937 20 дней назад +107

    You can also cover the Goan Inquisition. It's a rather unexplored topic of history, but the things perpetuated by it were rather horrifying.

    • @sendthis9480
      @sendthis9480 20 дней назад +33

      So is the Muslim Conquest of Iberian Peninsula. Nobody talks about that.
      That’s kind of the precursor to all of these: inquisition, crusades, reconquista, etc.

    • @azmike3572
      @azmike3572 20 дней назад +7

      Just doesn't have the same ring..."Nobody expects the Goan Inquisition!"

    • @HarryNicNicholas
      @HarryNicNicholas 20 дней назад +1

      that wasn't expected.

    • @Stephanie-mx2cr
      @Stephanie-mx2cr 20 дней назад +8

      The PT inquisition, the Captivity of Catholics by Tipu Sultan in Srirangapatnam, the Shivaji Wars and the exodus of Goan refugees to Mangalore - that area has so much neat history but is never popular enough to discuss!

    • @killahp123
      @killahp123 19 дней назад

      ​@@Stephanie-mx2cr because europe still has to take a few dozen thousands, it would go down less chill with people if they knew what their guests' ancestors did, the last time around.
      Idc either way, to be frank. Sins of the father and all that

  • @hughjass1044
    @hughjass1044 20 дней назад +83

    I never expected to learn so much new about The Spanish Inquisition!

    • @raewren
      @raewren 20 дней назад +5

      Nobody expects…

    • @b3ans4eva
      @b3ans4eva 19 дней назад +4

      I’ll bring the comfy chair.

    • @charlenebaganzmoore
      @charlenebaganzmoore 10 дней назад

      Um. So why couldn't people be Jewish or Muslim or goddess/God worshippers. Elizabeth didn't care what you did behind closed doors just as long as you were faithful to the crown. She did not even want to kill Mary.

    • @raewren
      @raewren 6 дней назад

      @@charlenebaganzmoore Elizabeth was Queen of England, not Spain. She really didn’t have much to play in this in the long run.
      But her older sister was a demon. It’s a good thing my ancestor had children before Bloody Mary had him executed.

  • @comettamer
    @comettamer 19 дней назад +20

    The Spanish Inquisition is also where the term "holding ones feet to the fire" comes from. Thr most famous victim of this particular punishment was the last grandmaster of the Knights Templar, Jacques de Molay. He was tortured this way to gain the location of the Templar treasure, as well as because Phillip IV was worried the Templars had gained too much power and influence.

    • @anthonyhastings5961
      @anthonyhastings5961 17 дней назад

      When he went into his trial, wasn't he wheeled in with a box on his knees with his foot bones in it? I'm sure I read that somewhere.

    • @tomascabezonortega911
      @tomascabezonortega911 7 дней назад +4

      But Jacques de Molay was FRENCH, killed by the FRENCH inquisition by order of the FRENCH king Philip IV.

  • @Kaltagstar96
    @Kaltagstar96 20 дней назад +56

    Honestly? I really find it interesting that the jails of the Spanish Inquisitions might be in the running for the most pleasant prison of all time (especially for the time period). But then you remember that there's a very good reason why they have the brutal reputation that they do.

    • @anthonyproffitt5341
      @anthonyproffitt5341 19 дней назад

      Jewish colonizers? Why you filled with hate?

    • @ignaciomoreno9655
      @ignaciomoreno9655 19 дней назад

      ​@@UserUser45654 Inevitably? Colonizers? Do you mean the ones that founded a kingdom around three-four thosand years before Mohammed was born?

    • @gonzalosalgadogamboa3352
      @gonzalosalgadogamboa3352 18 дней назад +3

      Quite accurate, fair and balanced work. Congrats and greetings from Spain

    • @personaldove
      @personaldove 18 дней назад

      @@UserUser45654 Here we go with the JOOZ.

    • @mikepalmer2219
      @mikepalmer2219 17 дней назад +1

      @@UserUser45654Wow we’re you there to witness these things? Amazing.

  • @neo-didact9285
    @neo-didact9285 20 дней назад +39

    We didn't expect you to make a video about this!

  • @kikofriastenza9876
    @kikofriastenza9876 19 дней назад +27

    I definitely wasn't expecting this video to make a defense in favor of the Spanish Inquisition.

    • @eadweard.
      @eadweard. 19 дней назад

      Some truths just shouldn't be told.

    • @kikofriastenza9876
      @kikofriastenza9876 19 дней назад +9

      @@eadweard. Nah, I'm happy history is started to be told the right way.

    • @eadweard.
      @eadweard. 19 дней назад

      @@kikofriastenza9876 Oh maybe I misunderstood you. I thought you were saying you shouldn't say the SI weren't so bad, even if it's true.

    • @kikofriastenza9876
      @kikofriastenza9876 19 дней назад +7

      @@eadweard. I think we are misunderstanding each other. I try yo say that I like the fact someone gives factual arguments about the SI instead of portraying them as the children of Darth Sidious.
      Edit: now that I've read my comment again... yeah I've phrased it pretty wrongly. I tried to say that I like the fact that efforts are being made to tell history correctly.

    • @DenUitvreter
      @DenUitvreter 19 дней назад

      @@kikofriastenza9876 Not in this video.

  • @macmcelveen1241
    @macmcelveen1241 20 дней назад +29

    I love the teleprompter reflection every time i watch.

    • @justme2848
      @justme2848 19 дней назад +1

      I never noticed it until you mentioned it but yeah it's there 😂

    • @CasperInkyMagoo
      @CasperInkyMagoo 19 дней назад

      Where?

    • @justme2848
      @justme2848 19 дней назад +1

      @@CasperInkyMagoo in his glasses if you zoom in and look at his glasses you can see the teleprompter

    • @CasperInkyMagoo
      @CasperInkyMagoo 19 дней назад +1

      @@justme2848 it looks like the reflection of the same type of wall that’s to his right.

    • @fellipecanal
      @fellipecanal 18 дней назад +1

      Probably is a stripbox light with a grid.
      In old days (2007) I worked at one university that teaches journalism.
      They had a studio, the teleprompter stayed below the camera, with the face to ceiling. In front of the camera had a glass to bend the light of the teleprompter to the eyes of the student.
      The letter of the teleprompter doesn't appear to the camera, It was this way to student read the text while look directly to the camera. In journalism when you look directly to the camera give a sensation the reporte is talking directly to you.
      Whit new tech I don't know how is the procedure today, but I doubt is much different.

  • @geordiecanuck2696
    @geordiecanuck2696 20 дней назад +99

    The Inquisition. All I can hear in my head is Mel Brookes' musical number from History of the World Part one... not the most sombre of recantations.😂

    • @SeanTR420
      @SeanTR420 20 дней назад +5

      We know you're wishin'
      That we'd go awaaaaaaaay

    • @pohldriver
      @pohldriver 19 дней назад +8

      When de Torquemada came up, all I could think about was "face it. You can't Totquemada anything!"
      I think many of us need to watch this video. All I know about the Spanish Inquisition is that they put on musical numbers, had synchronized swimming nuns, and they tortured jews.

    • @marksnyder8022
      @marksnyder8022 19 дней назад +8

      Auto de fe, what's an Auto de fe? It's what you shouldn't have done but you did anyway! 🥳

    • @aq5426
      @aq5426 19 дней назад

      Same!

    • @russward2612
      @russward2612 19 дней назад +1

      That's the only song I'd do for karaoke.

  • @ignitionfrn2223
    @ignitionfrn2223 20 дней назад +100

    *The Spanish Inquisition* : _What a show !_

    • @the80hdgaming
      @the80hdgaming 20 дней назад +7

      Thank you for bringing up The History of The World part one...

    • @pRODIGAL_sKEPTIC
      @pRODIGAL_sKEPTIC 20 дней назад +5

      It's all I could think about the entire video lol

    • @peterkirby1753
      @peterkirby1753 20 дней назад +3

      Great. Now I have that song stuck in my head 🤣

    • @crimsonking440
      @crimsonking440 20 дней назад +6

      Let's begin
      The inquisition
      Look out, sin!
      I know you're wishing
      That we'd go away
      But the inquisitions here
      And it's here to stay

    • @brandenmanuel2037
      @brandenmanuel2037 20 дней назад

      Lol!
      I was gonna say that

  • @richardbrewis436
    @richardbrewis436 20 дней назад +5

    In depth video Into the Shadows🤗. Can't wait for the next one!

  • @thefella3891
    @thefella3891 20 дней назад +32

    I must say Simon I certainly was not expecting the Spanish inquisition!

  • @catholiccrusader5328
    @catholiccrusader5328 20 дней назад +20

    Thank you, Simon, for telling the truth. I've been waiting decades for a program such as yours to tell the truth.

    • @johnkrol9649
      @johnkrol9649 19 дней назад +2

      Gross name.

    • @applegal3058
      @applegal3058 19 дней назад

      Yes, it may not have been as bad as previously reported, it is still disgusting and horrendous abuse towards people just for their beliefs. Today we would call it genocide and humanitarian crimes. Nothing to be proud of. I'm truly surprised people align themselves with religious organizations who have such evil pasts.

    • @jjohnson796
      @jjohnson796 18 дней назад +2

      The truth that people were tortured for witch craft by a ….oh never mind but putting a nice spin on a pretty horrid history still makes it a pretty horrid history. Saying the other guy was worse doesn’t make it any better. It was a backwards brutal age.

    • @Talisguy
      @Talisguy 18 дней назад

      ​@@johnkrol9649 Gross, racist comments elsewhere too.

    • @Talisguy
      @Talisguy 18 дней назад +1

      ​@@johnkrol9649Judging by some of his other comments on this channel, his approval should be a damning indictment of this video.

  • @OnigiriKewn
    @OnigiriKewn 12 дней назад +9

    As a spaniard I have to add that we have also helped a lot in perpetuating this myth about the grim and terrible inquisition that killed and tortured left and right. And it is because it has become kind of a touristic attraction with many museums dedicated to torture and the Inquisition.

    • @pricklypear7516
      @pricklypear7516 3 дня назад

      Salem, Massachusetts, USA, home of the infamous Witch Trials, has likewise capitalized on horror tourism.

    • @AnthonyHermo-fu6ft
      @AnthonyHermo-fu6ft День назад

      There was a other nations around the world worst but pick Spain for others reason let look at united States and others but at time it was not named Spain but details later it was not the people it other powers and to many wars that was uncontrollably there in Europe and the new world there to this but why that details later

  • @Michalosnup
    @Michalosnup 20 дней назад +26

    I wasn't expecting this video

  • @shantidoesntexist
    @shantidoesntexist 20 дней назад +22

    Unexpectedly, the comment section is exactly what i expected it to be.

  • @personaldove
    @personaldove 20 дней назад +77

    As an ex muslim, the Inquisition is strikingly similar to Sharia law.
    As someone who barely survived Iran I sympathize with people of that time.

    • @fett713akamandodragon5
      @fett713akamandodragon5 20 дней назад +25

      Glad you made it through. The Christian Nationalists here in the US would like to take us back to these times, all the while yelling about Sharia Law and not seeing they want nearly the same things.

    • @Avogadros_number
      @Avogadros_number 20 дней назад +16

      @@fett713akamandodragon5great point. Religious fundamentalism is strikingly similar regardless of the religion.

    • @ronmaximilian6953
      @ronmaximilian6953 20 дней назад

      ​​@@fett713akamandodragon5which Christian nationalists would do that in the United States. Let's remember that there is no dominant Christian sect in the United States. Most people who are labeled Christian nationalists simply want to return part of our culture to the 1950s noting that under false neutrality, the United States government is pushing atheism and cultural Marxism.

    • @bipolarminddroppings
      @bipolarminddroppings 19 дней назад +5

      I doubt your claim to be an ex-Muslim.
      Based upon the fact that no Muslim or even ex-muslim I have ever met calls Sharia "Sharia Law", since the word Sharia already means law and any actual Muslim knows saying "Sharia Law" is incorrect and will almost always correct non-muslims who say it.

    • @RG-sv4qb
      @RG-sv4qb 19 дней назад +11

      ​@@bipolarminddroppings That's like saying someone who says PIN number obviously has never owned a bank account 😉

  • @82dorrin
    @82dorrin 17 дней назад +11

    I was expecting a lot of comments about how no one expected the Spanish Inquisition.
    As I expected, I was not disappointed.

    • @CivilizedWarrior
      @CivilizedWarrior 11 дней назад +1

      Nonsense! No one expects comments not expecting the Spanish Inquisition!

  • @Razgriz619
    @Razgriz619 17 часов назад

    This was very informative thank you. This also corroborates a book I was reading.

  • @RosemarieJaeger-vt3ql
    @RosemarieJaeger-vt3ql 20 дней назад +9

    Starting to love this channel ❤

    • @patrickdurham8393
      @patrickdurham8393 20 дней назад +3

      He has about 500 other channels you need to check out

  • @gavinhudson5251
    @gavinhudson5251 19 дней назад +5

    Wow, I wasn't expecting that.

  • @LaurieValdez-zk3dy
    @LaurieValdez-zk3dy 20 дней назад +5

    I believe any human being tortured will say anything to stop it😢

  • @stephenmoerlein8470
    @stephenmoerlein8470 9 дней назад

    Thanks for posting the interesting content.

  • @summerwell8262
    @summerwell8262 20 дней назад +26

    Thank you, thank you, thank you: at last a truthful account of the historical Spanish Inquisition! As a spaniard history-buff I am glad to watch these facts spread in a popular English speaking channel 🫡👏👏👏

    • @1marcelo
      @1marcelo 18 дней назад +1

      Spaniards were pretty awful though

    • @summerwell8262
      @summerwell8262 18 дней назад +5

      @@1marcelo of course they were, as much as everyone else though. But way way less than the Black Legend propaganda says so and was the most progressive judicial system of its time, as this video explains so well.

    • @1marcelo
      @1marcelo 18 дней назад

      @@summerwell8262 I don't know about their justice system but they seem to have been pretty backwards in everything while they were expelling the jesuits and Arabs, and also committing horrendous massacres in the Americas. I don't think everyone else was awful on the same scale.

  • @dominiquecharriere1285
    @dominiquecharriere1285 9 дней назад +1

    Thanks Simon! It’s not every day that we can see the truth being offered (for free) in such a matter as the “leyenda negra” that is even believed here in Spain. I remember having read somewhere that in the 1610s, while 30 persons were burnt in Spain, 7’000 “witches” were burnt in Germany… And we can remember the Cathares as you did, or the Vaudois (or Walesians), massacred by the Duke of Savoy in my country of origin…

  • @the80hdgaming
    @the80hdgaming 20 дней назад +13

    Ngl... The way my spine feels right now, I'd give the rack a go for a while... 😂

  • @darrena2625
    @darrena2625 20 дней назад +6

    The more things change, the more they stay the same.

  • @Zak6959
    @Zak6959 15 дней назад

    Thanks for the video.

  • @Herr_Artago
    @Herr_Artago 15 дней назад +2

    Great video, it's really nice to see an English person telling all the facts about the Spanish Inquisition instead of spreading the black legend, which unfortunately most people around the world, including many Spaniards, still believe.
    By the way, in Spanish we don't pronounce the h and hu is pronounced like an English w, so the correct pronunciation for Huerta is werta.

  • @jaalsburg
    @jaalsburg 16 дней назад +3

    As vilified that the Spanish Inquisition was, weird statement, I've read that the German states were much more brutal and prevalent.

  • @omninex6040
    @omninex6040 20 дней назад +6

    Why is this not on Spotify I wanna listen to this at work

    • @Nylak-Otter
      @Nylak-Otter 20 дней назад +3

      Do you only have access to Spotify at work?
      Just play it on RUclips, close the screen and put on headphones. You don't have to watch it.

    • @Avogadros_number
      @Avogadros_number 20 дней назад

      @@Nylak-Otteryou need RUclips premium to listen to it while your phone is locked. Most people don’t have RUclips premium.

  • @andrewlee1066
    @andrewlee1066 6 дней назад

    Good info!!!

  • @arlesthegreat
    @arlesthegreat 12 дней назад +2

    ‘The Spanish Inquisition wasn’t as bad as you think! And now for a message from today’s sponsor: the Spanish inquisition!!’

  • @timothyclark-sl4il
    @timothyclark-sl4il 17 дней назад +3

    Cardinal Fang! Fetch...THE COMFY CHAIR!

    • @Styphon
      @Styphon 13 дней назад

      That is entirely in line with the prisons used

  • @jan-agelundman5435
    @jan-agelundman5435 20 дней назад +11

    But, what about the use of 'The Comfy Chair'..?

    • @hughjass1044
      @hughjass1044 20 дней назад +5

      Or the soft cushions?

    • @azmike3572
      @azmike3572 20 дней назад +2

      @@hughjass1044 "Confess, woman!"

    • @markvoelker6620
      @markvoelker6620 19 дней назад +1

      @@azmike3572Confess! Confess!! CONFESS!!!

    • @azmike3572
      @azmike3572 19 дней назад

      @@markvoelker6620 Okay, okay--I confess...that I love the comments!!

    • @markvoelker6620
      @markvoelker6620 19 дней назад

      @@azmike3572 Comedy genius for these hard times.

  • @ryanparker4996
    @ryanparker4996 19 дней назад +2

    Thankyou factboy this was a cool video

  • @markborn5293
    @markborn5293 16 дней назад

    Excellent article!

  • @diyeana
    @diyeana 20 дней назад +6

    Nobody expe ... wait, you've heard this one before?

    • @Styphon
      @Styphon 13 дней назад +1

      It was quite expected, for a change

  • @BuzzkillZone
    @BuzzkillZone 20 дней назад +5

    So I'm noticing the pointy hats of the accused in multiple pictures. Is that the origin of the standard "Wizard's" hat? or the Dunce cap?

    • @hartfartpoptart
      @hartfartpoptart 9 дней назад

      I believe it's connected with a commonly worn Jewish hat.

    • @tomascabezonortega911
      @tomascabezonortega911 7 дней назад

      It is a penitent cap. Think about it as a modern day orange suit.

  • @ernesto906
    @ernesto906 4 дня назад +1

    Thank you so much for helping rehabilitating the history of the Hispanic people

  • @1Thomkro
    @1Thomkro 20 дней назад +32

    Saw the alert, literally tapped as it appeared, cleverly I thought "I'll make a python pun, because no-one else will think of that so quickly...."
    Clever sods aren't ya?

    • @travisj05
      @travisj05 20 дней назад +1

      Thinking of yourself with a video like this? Pretty telling.

    • @1Thomkro
      @1Thomkro 20 дней назад +3

      @@travisj05 What can I say, I'm a very naughty boy 🤷‍♂️

    • @travisj05
      @travisj05 20 дней назад +2

      @@1Thomkro LOL the best reply possible. Touché my friend. Sincerely hope you enjoy your weekend.

    • @1Thomkro
      @1Thomkro 20 дней назад

      @@travisj05 and to you sir :)

    • @DenUitvreter
      @DenUitvreter 19 дней назад

      You must be very inquisitive.

  • @thejuanderful
    @thejuanderful 20 дней назад +18

    "Five of the twenty-nine women died while in prison"
    Twelve seconds later...
    "Their prisons were actually good compared to their contemporaries!"

    • @marksnyder8022
      @marksnyder8022 19 дней назад +7

      "I would like to give your accommodations 5 stars, but I cannot approve of your checkout procedure."

    • @pietersleijpen3662
      @pietersleijpen3662 19 дней назад +13

      Which is saying something of their contemporaries. Just because it is better doesn't mean it is good for your health to be in one.

    • @serfandterf
      @serfandterf 18 дней назад +1

      He didn't say women

    • @maxstrong6915
      @maxstrong6915 18 дней назад +2

      If 5 out of 29 women died in prison that means that 0.00023% of prisoners died

    • @FelixstoweFoamForge
      @FelixstoweFoamForge 18 дней назад +1

      @@pietersleijpen3662 Agreed. It's like choosing hanging over impalement.

  • @adamtaylor6126
    @adamtaylor6126 19 дней назад +1

    I wasn't expecting this episode.

  • @borjagines7424
    @borjagines7424 14 дней назад +2

    Nice work. Its dificult to find an anglospeaker that doesnt follow the difamation of the spanish empires! 👍

  • @thepeskytraveller3870
    @thepeskytraveller3870 19 дней назад +8

    As you mentioned, we can not judge what they considered fair back then by today's standards of humanity.
    The real question is - if western human rights is somehow over ridden by non-western thinking, should we expect the same humane treatment?

    • @eldoolittle
      @eldoolittle 16 дней назад

      The Spanish Inquisition was Western thinking. So was chattel slavery So we're the Nazis. So was Apartheid.
      The idea that human rights are only something valued in a modern Eurocentic world view is myopic both to the legacy of other global people who learned barbarism from the colonizers and the history of Europe and the USA less than a lifetime ago.

  • @peterc4082
    @peterc4082 19 дней назад +3

    At the end he has to still condemn it because of politics. He may as well have condemned all of society of that time.

  • @Andrew_Haase
    @Andrew_Haase 2 дня назад

    “…and then the Inquisition became more proactive…”
    - haha, that’s a diplomatic understatement if I’ve ever heard one

  • @bellamaz1972
    @bellamaz1972 19 дней назад

    This is an informative and educational video, but I kept hearing as its background soundtrack Mel Brooks’ song from History of the World Part I … “The Inquisition 🎶…”

  • @stormycat0905
    @stormycat0905 20 дней назад +6

    No one expects the Spanish Inquisition!

  • @mastercontrol469
    @mastercontrol469 18 дней назад +3

    History is written by the victors, and those in paid service to the victors, remember that.

  • @emomuzz5883
    @emomuzz5883 15 дней назад +1

    I am not expecting Simon to do a vid on The Comfy Chair.

  • @sergetheijspartner2005
    @sergetheijspartner2005 3 дня назад

    I did not expect this video

  • @giantred
    @giantred 20 дней назад +7

    Oh, what a charming way to spend my lunch break

  • @Benito-lr8mz
    @Benito-lr8mz 20 дней назад +12

    Iam Spaniard this video in English is the best of all views for me about Inquisition of my country ; great video historycally true and comonnsense with serious and real.sources not under Spanish Black Legend and in orher ocaaions xenophobic whiff

  • @richardpatton2502
    @richardpatton2502 12 дней назад +2

    To be fair, Torquemada went in to “standardize” trials, sentences and torture methods.
    Because some of the inquisitors were going absolutely wild with horrific tortures. And with that, worsening the relations with the local populace.
    I’m not, in any way, defending him. Just pointing out some common misconceptions
    All the best to everyone

    • @rawilliams5881
      @rawilliams5881 35 минут назад +1

      Fun fact: thanks to Torquemada, the Church was forbidden to draw blood during torture or execution. Hence the emphasis on the rack, hanging, and burning at the stake.

  • @arisaga822
    @arisaga822 19 дней назад

    I never expected this video

  • @reggiefurlow1
    @reggiefurlow1 20 дней назад +11

    Mel Brooks is a genius

    • @raewren
      @raewren 20 дней назад +1

      You can’t Torquemada anything!

  • @yanlumotungoe2361
    @yanlumotungoe2361 17 дней назад +17

    The crusades and the inquisitions can never,on the least degree,be compared to Islamic jihad that continues to this very day

    • @teknoaija1762
      @teknoaija1762 15 дней назад

      What about massive child rape culture?

    • @chargree
      @chargree 15 дней назад

      They can and have been compared to it. It is rather simple and many similarities are too obvious to even rattle off without sounding flippant and risking the eager aggressiveness of the “Mr. Obvious” police(people who look for people they can criticize for sharing information they feel is not worth their time because “everyone” supposedly already knows it). There are many differences that provide an interesting contrast between the movements. This only makes the topic of discussing all 3 movements together more compelling and lends the discussion much validity. Listen, it is likely that we are expressing subjective opinions, even though we might be using objective data to inform those opinions, so dont take my comment as antagonistic. I do not desire to just marginalize your comment. It just successfully inspired me to explore the idea and I appreciate that. We could easily keep this going and share all of the nuances available to maybe gain some additional insight together. I would be interested to know your experience and process that led you to the comment you made.

    • @daydays12
      @daydays12 15 дней назад +1

      why not?

    • @tomascabezonortega911
      @tomascabezonortega911 7 дней назад

      The Crusades were literally Jihads. It is the exact translation.

  • @ken481959
    @ken481959 9 дней назад +1

    "The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries.” James Madison
    Still relevant today.

  • @MrNutt_
    @MrNutt_ 19 дней назад +2

    Never expected this

  • @joaomarreiros4906
    @joaomarreiros4906 19 дней назад +40

    We study this here in school, Portugal, so we know the difference of legend and reality, our Reconquista was brutal and slow, and downright genocide, because the Moors had forced half of the population up north to better control us, and people were naturally resentful, entire cities were levelled, only the Algarve was more or less spared, but because the numbers of Jews and Moors were reduced. Religious wars are a waste of time.

    • @tamarinmangold1414
      @tamarinmangold1414 19 дней назад +15

      "War does not determine who is right, only who is left."
      -Bertrand Russell

    • @joaomarreiros4906
      @joaomarreiros4906 19 дней назад +7

      @@tamarinmangold1414 We are all survivors of war, my grandfathers family was from East Prussia, German. Excellent quote.

    • @SpaceMarine500
      @SpaceMarine500 18 дней назад

      @@tamarinmangold1414 War does determine who is right. It's infused into all the history books you study.

    • @UserUser45654
      @UserUser45654 17 дней назад

      It’s a war of decolonization. The inquisition was meant to root out stay behinds who could help the Moors and Jews re-colonize the country. Remember North Africa is just a short distance from the peninsula.

    • @mitseraffej5812
      @mitseraffej5812 16 дней назад +3

      Religion itself is a waste of time. Wasting the precious and short lived hiccup of consciousness between oblivions that we call life, in an effort to convince oneself that eternal life awaits is insanity.

  • @bonnieprincecharlie6248
    @bonnieprincecharlie6248 20 дней назад +5

    Were the statistics mentioned in the video including the spanish inquisition in the new world? From what I heard the inquisition there was pretty brutal with thousands being tortured or forced into galley slavery, although I do remeber it saying that very few people were actually executed by them, although this does not mean that they didn't destroy a lot of people's lives.

    • @13sempere
      @13sempere 19 дней назад +4

      In the Americas it was hardly active.

    • @martinmaynard141
      @martinmaynard141 19 дней назад +3

      @@13sempere mostly true since the "natives" were outside it's control. I remember once being at a birthday lunch where the person sitting next to me had a bad case of Dunning-Kruger and insisted that "millions" of natives were put to death. When I challenged this I got the classic DK defence "Well in my opinion ..." The biggest trial was in fact in Mexico city in the 17th Century and the vicitms were homosexual men!

    • @eddifabricio3750
      @eddifabricio3750 8 дней назад

      12 died, all Protestants... According to records available.

    • @tomascabezonortega911
      @tomascabezonortega911 7 дней назад +1

      50 deaths in 3 centuries. Mostly colonizers. And the General Inquisitor was Bartolome de las Casas, an overall supercool dude.

  • @morbosmeatshack
    @morbosmeatshack 20 дней назад

    Straight into this from the notification, unrelated though, where did you get those glasses?

  • @brandonspears6996
    @brandonspears6996 18 дней назад

    I think I remember reading a Dan brown novel mentioning the cathars

  • @maverick7291
    @maverick7291 18 дней назад +5

    The inquisition and church courts of law were nothing compared to how brutal secular courts were and even sharia(even today's sharia in many muslim majority countries)

  • @trishmcl9055
    @trishmcl9055 19 дней назад +3

    This is why America was founded on freedom of religion. Because in Europe people were being forced to become Catholic than Protestant then Catholic again then Protestant and on and on depending on who was sitting on the throne.

    • @admdubya2107
      @admdubya2107 19 дней назад +2

      You’ll note our little error though. Freedom of religion. We gave them freedom to get as big and powerful as they please, do as they please, hold offices, make laws in their ways. The church is bigger than the government.
      We really needed was from *from* religion.

    • @angh18
      @angh18 19 дней назад

      America wasn't founded on Freedom of Religion. First Nation's people wouldn't have had to have their hair cut, children seperated from their families to be brain-washed to rid them of their 'Pagan' beliefs, in Religious run torture 'orphanages/schools'. There wouldn't be this 'Muslim Hate', happening now. Back in the African Slavery times, the slaves were forced into Christian belief. Infact a Bible for Slave-Owners' was published and sold - with 'selected' sections from the Bible, to be read to the slaves.

    • @DenUitvreter
      @DenUitvreter 19 дней назад +1

      No, the Pilgrim Fathers actually fled the freedom of reliigion in the Dutch Republic, the fact that they went back to England for the crossing doesn't change that. They were prudes who feared the influence on their children of protestants less uptight about the naughty bits.

    • @AmonAnon-vw3hr
      @AmonAnon-vw3hr 19 дней назад +1

      @admdubya2107 no, lol. You only survive tiday because of a society created by religious people.

    • @admdubya2107
      @admdubya2107 18 дней назад

      @@AmonAnon-vw3hr Christianity was born in the already existing Roman Empire. The “survival” parts of society have been built by scientists, engineers, doctors, etc etc etc that may have happened to be Christian or Muslim but didn’t learn farming or trigonometry from the Bible. As for me specifically…I could go live in a tent in the woods I don’t need any society to keep me alive.

  • @daveb7128
    @daveb7128 2 дня назад +1

    I saw this video and immediately expected the Spanish inquisition.

  • @Ravenforce3
    @Ravenforce3 11 часов назад

    🎶We know you're wishin'
    That we'd go away;
    But the Inquisition's here
    And it's here to stay!🎶

  • @DenUitvreter
    @DenUitvreter 20 дней назад +6

    Both Dutch Protestants and catholics revolted against the religious persecution by the Spanish. They had every right to do so, not just because of it's immense slaughter and torture, but also because it went against the Dutch freedom of conscience. That wasn't propaganda, that was an experience the British didn't have. Those were just safely on their island being declared 'protestant' by their king, the Briish never had to protest the Spanish Inquistion or blood councils.

    • @korstmahler
      @korstmahler 19 дней назад +4

      This video is weirdly pro-catholic and pro-inquisition. Whole lotta apologetics going on.

    • @DenUitvreter
      @DenUitvreter 19 дней назад

      @@korstmahler That's an international trend, probably coming from the USA's racialized hisoriography. Just like portraying the Dutch revolt/80 years war for independence as just another religious war, it wasn't, it was a war for religious tolerance which the protestants could do when they ruled and the catholics couldn't.
      The 80-years war was probably the first war in which propaganda played a significant role, but the Inquisition part was very real. The fact that is was highly legalized in an orderly manner and did mild sanctioning too doesn't mean it wouldn't have been terrible for true protestants.
      Large scale prosecution of witches wasn't very protestant either, the English loved it but they do no represent protestantism of that time because they never protested anything. In the Netherlands witch prosecution almost ended with the end of catholic rule.

    • @wessel754
      @wessel754 19 дней назад +3

      This is a video about the Spanish inquisition in Spain, not the causes for the Dutch revolt. Some dutch cities councils joined the revolt (similar to the earlier bauern krieg in HRR) because they want to maintain financial autonomy. The religious argument was a convenient cover. Main issue here: revolt is never legit, thus a black legend is reinforced. That's propaganda.
      Replacing the black legend with a white legend indeed won't suffice either however. In the early days of the revolt, with the crisis of legitimacy in the low countries, their leaders sought a replacement sovereign state-figure: the duke of Leicester, the duke of Anjou. This all failed. Tensions also were felt on the British isles. Don't forget the threat of the massive Spanish Armada in 1588, the main reason why the British hence forwards built a grand navy.

    • @DenUitvreter
      @DenUitvreter 19 дней назад

      @@wessel754 The Spanish installed an inquisition, and later the council of troubles or blood council, doing about the same. That ended up in English propaganda, and was quite an accurate image of inquisition by Spanish rule, technically that is not the Spanish Inquisiton. That is what the English would have got if the Armada hadn't been fenced off or the Dutch not blocking the invasion troops.
      Dutch cities wanted to maintain autonomy, they claimed their ancient rights and privileges which included dealing with religious matters themselves, i.e. having religious tolerance and no inquisition. The medieval taxation not fitting an economy of traders and increased to finance the war and prosecution of their fellow people didn't help, but the freedom of conscience and therefor how to believe in god was codified in the Union of Utrecht.
      The Spanish were highly surprised about how unpopular the public torture and burnings at the stake were in the Netherlands, also in catholic eras. In Spain those drew huge enthousiastic crowds. There was just very little appetite for imposing religion.

    • @wessel754
      @wessel754 19 дней назад

      @@DenUitvreter Whether the propaganda effective or accurate is, is speculation. The black and white myths are still very dominant.
      Stateformation is a process made by elites. In 17th century there were no free elections or modern democracy. Within the 17th century republic there was an intern dispute between gormanists and arminians; predetermination or free will. This dispute got politicized between Oldenbarnevelt and Maurits, and pamfleteert amongst the crowd.
      When war resumed in 1621, the military odds in 1629 were in favour of the durch republic, peace negotiations initiated by Philips IV stranded. No public catholic worship (thus so far the argument of religious tolerance). The Schelde canal remained closed, because the economic position of Holland could not be harmed.

  • @defenderofpoodles5606
    @defenderofpoodles5606 20 дней назад +11

    This is the best…and only…defense of the Spanish Inquisition I have seen so far.

    • @anthonyproffitt5341
      @anthonyproffitt5341 19 дней назад +4

      There is no defense of Christians being judge and jury over others for practicing other religions without harming other folks.

    • @Talisguy
      @Talisguy 19 дней назад +1

      The fact that they were methodical, rigorous, evidence -based and relatively polite about burning people alive for practicing other religions in an area that had been happily and peacefully multi-cultural and religiously pluralistic until very recently honestly makes it creepier. It brings to mind the machinery of the Holocaust.

    • @daffyf6829
      @daffyf6829 19 дней назад

      ​@@TalisguyI think an important difference is that the Nazis tried to hide the Holocaust, burning records and evidence etc, while the inquisitors were fastidious in their record keeping. Which is to say, the inquisitors did not think they were doing anything wrong while the Nazis did. Intent is important, especially when judging events in the past.

    • @xxxxxxxxxx02
      @xxxxxxxxxx02 19 дней назад +3

      @@Talisguy it was never happily multicultural lol. you people live in a fantasy world.

    • @angelabennett8245
      @angelabennett8245 19 дней назад +1

      Still. Any form of torture is ridiculous when forcing people to convert to Catholicism, or forced to confess to being a witch, a stupid idea, but people back then were fanatical in their superstition. Why else would Catholics be hated like they were and still are? The past was the worst.

  • @jacobdurborow5583
    @jacobdurborow5583 19 дней назад +1

    This video was the last thing i expected

  • @GhostM4
    @GhostM4 20 дней назад

    I think this is going to be a great video to fall asleep to

  • @Apollo_Sierra
    @Apollo_Sierra 18 дней назад +3

    For the time, the "interrogation" process was quite reasonable, not wanting blind confessions, but actual corroborable proof.
    It was still a heinous act, dont get me wrong, but for its time, quite reasonable.

  • @Wonkt
    @Wonkt 20 дней назад +5

    I wasn’t expecting this.

  • @AliceBowie
    @AliceBowie 6 дней назад

    What's the painting in the thumbnail, and who painted it? Does anyone know?

  • @pvtj0cker
    @pvtj0cker 18 дней назад +2

    Heretics torturing other heretics for being heretics. It's a strange world...

    • @arlesthegreat
      @arlesthegreat 11 дней назад

      But when you put it like that…not so bad. Right?

  • @barttheraven
    @barttheraven 20 дней назад +4

    The Spanish Inquisition was awesome actually.

    • @eadweard.
      @eadweard. 19 дней назад +1

      "Not as bad as commonly believed" isn't the same as "awesome".

  • @BurneraccountXD69
    @BurneraccountXD69 20 дней назад +15

    I wasn't expecting a video on the Spanish Inquisition.

  • @Styphon
    @Styphon 13 дней назад

    This does not diminish my enjoyment of King Diamond's "The Eye"

  • @roverrover3233
    @roverrover3233 19 дней назад +2

    How,about doing the history of the rif mountains Morocco

  • @jesseberg3271
    @jesseberg3271 20 дней назад +12

    The idea of "secular authorities" is an anachronism. There was no separation of Church and state at the time and place. The Church was merely another aspect of the still semi feudal early-modern state.

    • @Vishanti
      @Vishanti 20 дней назад +2

      THIS!

    • @acupofwhitetea
      @acupofwhitetea 20 дней назад +2

      There never is, the secular authorities are only secular by name but they are practically loyal and aligned to the church officials. The Clery already have everyone so loyal the townsfolk are practically their lackeys. The Inquisitors can get their "death punishment" and not lift a finger because they know everyone will do it for them. Which makes sense since the clergy have the influence to instilled that train of thought in the first place.

    • @RlsIII-uz1kl
      @RlsIII-uz1kl 20 дней назад

      Now we're living in a kind of techno-feudal anarcho-tyrannical transnationalist socialist/global socio-fascist era in which religion/cultism has returned within state and that religion/cult is known as Hegelian cultism/woke cultism.

  • @jasonpalacios1363
    @jasonpalacios1363 20 дней назад +4

    Let's not forget that the Spanish Inquisition spread into their colonies in Latin America and The Philippines.

    • @Vishanti
      @Vishanti 20 дней назад +1

      the Inquisition didn't end in Mexico until 1820! That's extremely recent.

    • @kevinbarrios5718
      @kevinbarrios5718 17 дней назад +1

      And they dont mention American Spanish Inquisition was far more gruesome and malevolent

  • @washingtoncommie2991
    @washingtoncommie2991 20 дней назад +2

    I watched the Mel Brooks song The Inquisition to prepare myself.
    I’m expecting The Spanish Inquisition.

  • @Am-ih5nf
    @Am-ih5nf 19 дней назад +1

    Do the Goa Inquisition: the Portugese inquisition of Goa, India, and (I think) Kerala!

  • @menash23
    @menash23 19 дней назад +6

    So relived to know they tortured tens of thousands but only burned less than 1% and only used 3 torture methods. Changed my entire view of that era….

    • @supernoodles91
      @supernoodles91 19 дней назад +2

      Me too, they were totally misunderstood, gentle folk really!😉

  • @joshualindsey1128
    @joshualindsey1128 20 дней назад +10

    I was not expecting Simon to be a Spanish Inquisition apologist.

    • @eadweard.
      @eadweard. 19 дней назад +10

      Do you mean you expected him to tell the truth - or you _didn't_ expect him to tell the truth?

    • @arlesthegreat
      @arlesthegreat 12 дней назад

      I heard it was actually pretty fun. No bedtime, no forced teeth brushing, eat whatever was within reach of your shackles on the dungeon floor. Regular medieval Holliday like

  • @amazingdany
    @amazingdany 18 дней назад

    Thumbnail’s painting’s name and author please! 🙏

  • @pyrodoll2422
    @pyrodoll2422 20 дней назад +1

    I wasn't expecting that 😐

  • @4362mont
    @4362mont 20 дней назад +6

    Doing the torture, despite any apologetics, is still wrong, and doing it overseas does not make it less Spanish (or less American-at-Guantanamo).

    • @arlesthegreat
      @arlesthegreat 12 дней назад

      C’mon bro, you know it was pretty chill. Relatively speaking…

    • @4362mont
      @4362mont 11 дней назад

      @@arlesthegreat Don't think you can salami-slice away my objections to the practice, dustant cuz.

  • @thomasi4551
    @thomasi4551 20 дней назад +4

    Can we see the insignia of the necromancer?

    • @marksnyder8022
      @marksnyder8022 19 дней назад +1

      It's a purple bump. No, that's the Neck Romancer.

  • @chipkornrumpf6318
    @chipkornrumpf6318 10 дней назад

    Two points:
    First, using the word "only" when referring to dozens of people tortured and executed is really telling...
    Second, quoting a low percentage of people tortured and killed when it's from a pool of massive amounts of people is telling as well.
    There were many less people around back then and the numbers easily justify the horrific, evil, and accurate reputation the Spanish Inquisition earned 💯%‼️

  • @markbanash921
    @markbanash921 17 дней назад

    Do one about the corpse synod. Another great moment in Catholic history.

  • @Grassy_Gnoll
    @Grassy_Gnoll 20 дней назад +3

    You forgot ruthless efficiency, and…