HIST 1231 - THE INQUISITION

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
In the medieval and early modern West, religion was viewed as an ordering principle of society. Heresy was viewed not just as religious dissent but also as a threat to social and political order, a special category of treason requiring special courts to investigate. This course will consider the importance of religious conformity in pre-modern societies; the particular significance of correct belief in Christianity; the establishment of the Papal Inquisition in the early 1200s; the creation of the separate Spanish Inquisition in the 1400s, and its relation to recent mass conversions from Judaism; and its unexpected afterlife in Latin America into the nineteenth century.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: LVL: Sophomore or Instructor permission

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