Religious Crises in Europe

“Ding dong the witch is dead…”

Spanish Inquisition

1478-1834

Targeted Jews, Moors (Spanish Muslims)& to some extent Protestants

Religious & Political Purposes:

Religious: to rid Spain of non-Catholics (heretics)

Political: to gain land (increase state revenue without raising taxes)

Spanish Inquisition

Synonymous with bloody, torturous reign of terror

Responsible for countless executions

Video: Spanish Inquisition

What do you call 13 witches in a hot tub?

A self-cleaning

Coven!

Witchcraft Trials

Spanish Inquisition & hunt for heretics led to witch hunts

16th-17th C. - witch hysteria

100,000+ charged, tortured & killed

Witches

Who was accused?

Commoners (poor)

Apx. 75% women

Single or widowed

Over 50

Witch Trials In Europe

Handout

Thirty Years War

1618-1648

Series of declared & undeclared wars

Austrian & Spanish Hapsburgs vs.

Danish

Dutch

France

Sweden

Some German principalities (civil war - others fought with Hapsburgs)

Religion in the TYW

Also religious war - Catholics vs. Protestants

Peace of Augsburg

Did not recognize Calvinism

Treaty of Westphalia

Ended the Thirty Years War

Significant because…

IT ALSO ENDED THE HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE!