Abstract
The popular (and perhaps not only the popular) impression of the Spanish Inquisition is that it was an organisation of blood and fire, concerned with the enforcement of Catholic uniformity at whatever cost. Of course, it maintained a “tribunal,” before which heretics and unbelievers were haled in order to be condemned to the stake. The outcome of the trial was however a foregone conclusion in every case. Hence the Inquisitional muniments (if they existed) could be of value only as a record of (to use the current jargon) sadism or obscurantism on the one side, and of Protestant endurance on the other. Even scholars such as Lea tended to be affected by the popular tradition: and one may scan those five superb volumes on the Inquisition in Spain and her dependencies in vain for any indication that its archives are of value for the study of human history and ideas.
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