Contemporary Views Flashcards
A chronicler. About the new possibilities that came with F&I’s reign. E.g. To rid Spain and the Med of the Turkish threat and to subjugate the Moors in Spain. Page 13.
“With this conjunction of two royal sceptres, our Lord Jesus Christ took vengeance on his enemies and destroyed him who slays and curses.”
An eye witness to conquest of Granada.
Declared it to be ‘the most distinguished and blessed day there has ever been in Spain’.
Muslim on the CofG
‘One of the most terrible catastrophes to befall Islam’
On the Hermandad.
‘There was much butchery, with the cutting off of feet, hands and legs’.
John Foxe, a contemporary Protestant English writer.
Highlighted ‘the extreme dealing and cruel ravening of these Catholic Inquisitors of Spain.’
On the financial motives for the establishment of the Inquisition.
‘They burn only the well-off, because they have property; the others they leave alone.’
‘Don’t be afraid of being burnt, they’re only after the money.’
Contemporary Jew from Cuenca.
‘I would rather see all the Muslims of Granada enter this city than the Holy Office of the Inquisition which takes away life and honour.’
Aragonese historian, Jeronimo de Zurita.
Thought that the King was making a mistake ‘to throw out of his realms people who were so industrious and hardworking, and so outstanding both in number and esteem as well as in dedication to making money.’
Isabella on the corruption of the clergy. Pg41 1492 to 1500.
She wrote to one of her bishops in 1500 about the lack of discipline, i.e. ‘The greater part of the clergy are said to be and are in concubinage publicly, and if our justice intervenes to punish them, they revolt.’
