HTST 489 Lecture Notes - Political Warfare, Church Attendance, Habsburg Monarchy
14 Feb 2014
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Ta will be doing a lecture on monday there will be a final question based on it. Protestant states have their own variant of the inquisition idea of monitoring members of a nonofficial religion becomes standard practice in western european states in this era. Interrogation techniques of the inquisition seem very sophisticated. Attempting to deal with any case it would view as heretical though heresy can take many forms. Someone who was gay would be taken under inquisitor"s purview as it involved secular and religious crime of sodomy. Run by church authorities but cooperating as an arm of the state, given powers by the state. Local authorities allow people to gather intel by any means. Power to arrest and interrogate people (includes torture as the norm at the time). People confronted with testimony of others, asked to explain themselves inquisitor can check the records via the index and know if the person was accused before and use it against them.
