>Starting in 1492, there were legally no Jews or Muslims permitted to reside in Spain for hundreds of years--all had to convert to Catholicism or be expelled. The Inquisition monitored conversos closely in the event they should relapse or if their conversion was insincere. A common test was to invite a suspected individual to the home of a Christian family and offer them a meal of pork. If the guest refused to eat it, it proved that his conversion was insincere.[3]
it was religious not racial
>>18448992idk why Poland has so many pork dishes. was it a way of uncovering closet Jews? don't ask me.
Seems relatively sane.
>>18448992Torquemada's crucifix anecdote and everything.>>18449020Maybe it was a cheap meat to produce? Poland was actually unusually tolerant with its Jews. Very nice to them by medieval/Early Modern Europe standards. Probably because it allowed them to sidestep the hassle of having a Burgher class.
>>18448992Now you know why the Spanish Inquisition is so demonized in the Anglosphere, all the historiography in English is written by the descendants of the Jews who got kicked out and migrated to England.
>>18449052>demonized in the Anglospheresince when? the inquisitions pitching unrepentant jews into bonfires was good for everyone, especially jews
>>18449052Yeah bro, all the Anglicans and Dissenters kvetching about Papists burning Jan Hus, John Wycliffe, etc. are Jews. There is no reason why anyone from protestant northern Europe may have a problem with the inquisition; I bet they loved Mary I before the Jews came to tarnish her memory, too.
>>18449047>Probably because it allowed them to sidestep the hassle of having a Burgher class.Germans actually did as many of those jobs. Ethnic Poles were just nobility and peasants, they had no middle class or skilled tradesmen.
>>18448997I'll say this when I deport all the nons too.
>>18449063I guess I should have said endogenous burgher class. But the point it still stands, comparatively the Polish nobility and Monarchy tolerated and relied on Jews a lot. At one point most of the world's Jews (by population) lived in Poland, iirc.
>>18449074Well, Poland-Lithuania. It's not fair to just single out the poles for this.
>>18449063this was true in Eastern Europe in general back then. Germans and to an extent Jews operated all skilled trades, moneylending, manufacturing, and so forth.
>>18449060This thread is specifically about the Spanish Inquisition, which rarely persecuted Protestants.You’re thinking of the inquisition in other countries.
