A woman who wanted to be pope. A man who wanted to murder the inquisition. And a pope accused of being in league with Satan. The year 1300 was certainly memorable. A new century was welcomed with an explosion of heretics across Europe. The stage was set for a violent confrontation between those who rejected…
For centuries, the inquisition struck terror into the hearts of those deemed to be heretics by the church. Intertwined with charges of heresy and sorcery were often complex issues around sexuality that were reduced in the pre-modern mind to sinfulness and a disordering of divine creation. Pity the nun questioning her own identity or a…
Tony McMahon visited a Spanish Inquisition prison to find out what really happened to heretics behind those walls