HIST 10800 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Pope Boniface Viii, Feudalism
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1063- pope started urging christian knights to drive the muslims (moors) out of. Late 1400"s- muslims only held the tiny kingdom of granada, while four other kingdoms of the iberian peninsula were ruled by christians. Their marriage (1469) brought their kingdoms into close alliance. Beginning in 1482, ferdinand and isabella set out to conquer granada. A. 2. b. i. final battle- isabella personally led her army, wearing the red cross of a crusader. Spain had a long history of religious diversity and tolerance. Since the 700"s, muslims, jews, and christians had all lived there. Under, ferdinand and isabella, spain"s religious tolerance ended. As a devout roman catholic, isabella decreed that in a christian state, there could be only one king, one law, one faith. She and ferdinand won permission from the pope to revive the inquisition, the arm of the church that had tracked down heretics in the middle ages.
