Only that it’s Saladin…
No Yanny, Local Muslim rulers and towns allying witht he “franks” to fight Baghdad
When I say the Spanish Inquisition, I mean the Witch-Heretic craze which swept throughout Europe. The Spanish Inquisition was part of that, and is just my name for the whole Europe-wide event.
Actually…
the Spanish Inquisition (which noone expects;) ) has not been an important part of the witch hunting. The witch hunting was not in the Middle Ages, but in the early New Ages (or whatever you call that thing that starts about 1500).
@F_alk:
When I say the Spanish Inquisition, I mean the Witch-Heretic craze which swept throughout Europe. The Spanish Inquisition was part of that, and is just my name for the whole Europe-wide event.
Actually…
the Spanish Inquisition (which noone expects;) ) has not been an important part of the witch hunting. The witch hunting was not in the Middle Ages, but in the early New Ages (or whatever you call that thing that starts about 1500).
F_alk is right. The Spanish Inquisition was Kind Ferdinand and Queen Isabella’s way of ensuring Spain would remain Catholic by forcing conversion on the Jews and remaining Moores of Spain. Many that converted still kept their traditions at home and were called Marranos meaning schwein. The Spanish Inquisition was aimed at those Marranos in order to make sure everyone in Spain was a loyal Catholic. The Marranos were brutally tortured along with the remaining Jews and Moores who werre expelled from Spain in 1492. Some say that Columbus’ navigator was Jewish, but that’s a different story. The Spanish Inquisition was not a witch hunting process, it was thep urging of Islam and Judaism from Spain. To this day there are Marranos in Spain and many Sepharidic Jews (Jews with origins in Spain) have a tradition of never setting foot in Spain ever again.
Doh Doh ment Saladin. Playing a game (Ogre Battle) right now which has both a Saradin and a Saladin… mind is overloaded.
No problem. :)
Falk, for your benefit
Dark Ages 400-1050
High Middle Ages 1050-1450
Renaissance 1450-1600
Thanks…. in germany ususally Dark Age and High Middle Age are put together to Middle Age, with distincting two or three “eras” in that.
American Historians ussually break up the Renaissance and the middle ages with the fall of Constantinople
Yeah, there are different ways to make that cut.
Some say Columbus, some say Fall of Byzantine…. I don’t think that you can make that up on one event. It happened around 1500, that’s good enough for me :)
