https://earlymoderneurope.hist.sites.carleton.edu/files/original/4a5d9c217f6eff377b347ab72169baee.jpg d226bed60c1a81c68c436c097ffdc5bf Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Etching Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Accused heretics standing before a tribunal of the Spanish Inquisition in Sevilla Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Edouard Moyse Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Elliot Cahn Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1481 Description An account of the resource Shortly after the publication of Martin Luther’s complaints against the Catholic Church in the early 16th century, Protestant religions rapidly spread across the European continent through printed documents as well as traveling preachers (Wiesner-Hanks 185). In many places, such as the Holy Roman Empire and France, the new alternative religions were able to spread due to favorable political climates (Wiesner-Hanks 185) and the growing discontentment with the Catholic clergy (Wiesner-Hanks 166). Spain is a notable exception in this era as Protestantism never managed to gain a foothold. Staunch defenders of Catholicism, the Spanish government had recently gained experience in extinguishing non-Catholic faiths across the country. The Spanish Inquisition, originally formed in the 1480s, was tasked with suppressing heretical beliefs, which included investigating claims that converted Jews and Muslims covertly practiced their former religion (Weisner-Hanks 111). When the Protestant Reformation reached Spain, the authorities already had an organization prepared to meet this new threat. The Inquisition utilized its censorship powers to stem the flow of Protestant literature into Spain and punish people found guilty of holding Protestant beliefs (Kinder 63-64). Although the Inquisition was designed to appear as a religiously motivated organization, it was controlled by the Spanish state instead of a religious authority, such as the pope (Weisner-Hanks 108). This enabled the Inquisition to targeting individuals for political reasons, sometime branding them as “Protestants” (Lynch 30). While the Spanish Inquisition was not the only factor responsible for preventing the spread of Protestantism in Spain, it certainly made a contribution (Kinder 62). The lasting affect of these institutions was to restrict the influence of other faiths on Spanish culture, which remains largely Catholic-centric. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived https://www.europeana.eu/portal/en/record/9200579/z9cghdjj.html?q=spanish+inquisition Kinder, A. Gordon. "Protestantism in Sixteenth-Century Spain." Mediterranean Studies 3 (1992): 61-70. http://www.jstor.org/stable/41166816. Lynch, J. "Philip II and the Papacy." Transactions of the Royal Historical Society 11 (1961): 23-42. doi:10.2307/3678749. Wiesner-Hanks, Merry E. Early Modern Europe, 1450-1789. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2013. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Free Re-use