1697 newspaper SPANISH INQUISITION BookAd PILGRIMS PROG

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Please visit our EBAY STORE at the link directly below for HUNDREDS of HISTORICAL NEWSPAPERS on sale or at auction: /Steve-Goldman-HISTORICAL-NEWSPAPERS_W0QQsspagenameZL2222QQtZkm SEE PHOTO----- COMPLETE, ORIGINAL and very early newsbook (the direct precurser to the newspaper) titled " The Present State of EUROPE: or the ...MONTHLY MERCURY, Giving an Account of all the public and private OCCURENCES...for the Month of February, 1697 ." This early newsbook / newspaper was printed in London, England and consists of approximately 48 pages, the dimensions of which are 8" x 6". This newsbook was issued monthly and each issue has the date of publication on the front page. The news inside is formatted by headings indicating the country from which the news was coming (France, England, Spain, Poland, Russia, Portugal, Switzerland, Italy, the Netherlands, Germany, Turkey, Ireland, etc). The news coverage has mostly to do with the various countries of Europe in general and the Royalty of Europe in particular. T is lots of coverage of WARS, treaties, important people, commerce, deaths, disasters, Kings, Queens, ie- all the news that one sees in todays newspapers . This particular issue has coverage of the following events (and much more): Inside page report of the "work" of the SPANISH INQUISITION, killing the tics who did not agree with the Catholic faith !! ( see below below ) Back page ad for the famous book "Pilgrims Progess" by John Bunyan ( see below ), first published in 1678. The Pilgrim's Progress from This World to That Which Is to Come by John Bunyan (published February, 1678 ) is a Christian allegory . It is regarded as one of the most significant works of English literature , has been translated into more than 200 languages, and has never been out of print. The Spanish Inquisition was established in 1478 by Catholic Monarchs Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella of Castile to maintain Catholic orthodoxy in their kingdoms and was under the direct control of the Spanish monarchy . It was not definitively abolished until 1834 , during the reign of Isabel II . The Inquisition , as an ecclesiastical tribunal, had jurisdiction only over baptized Christians . However, since Jews (in 1492 ) and Muslim Moors (in 1502) had been banished from Spain, jurisdiction of the Inquisition during a large part of its history extended in practice to all royal subjects. The Inquisition worked in large part to ensure the orthodoxy of recent converts. The Spanish Inquisition was an institution that had precedents in other Inquisitions . In the 15th century, as the kingdoms of Castille and Aragon united under the Catholic monarchs and concluded the Reconquista with the conquest of Granada , anxiety about the cultural unity of the country grew. Suspicions were especially raised against Jews who had recently converted to Christianity, called conversos or derogatively marranos , as many doubted the sincerity of these conversions. Indeed, many Jews had been baptized to escape violent anti-Jewish outbursts around 1400. In 1492, the Alhambra Decree ordered all remaining Jews to leave the kingdoms. Various motives have been proposed for the monarchs to start the Inquisition, such as increased political authority, weakening opposition, doing away with conversos and sheer profit. Ferdinand II of Aragon pressured pope Sixtus IV to agree to let him set up an Inquisition controlled by the monarchy by threatening to withdraw military support at a time when the Turks were a threat to Rome. Sixtus IV later accused the Spanish inquisition of being overzealous, accused the monarchs for being greedy and issued a bull to stop it, but he was pressured into withdrawing the bull. On both occasions Sixtus IV went along with Ferdinand II of Aragon . During the 16th century a new target was found: Protestants. About 100 were burned as tics. An index of prohibited books was drawn up that were alleged to contain sy .... read more

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