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Tag Archives: Spanish Inquisition
remnants of remnants
… the passing of Benzion Netanyahu, scholar, Zionist leader, and father of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. He was 102.He saw a lot. He was termed a right wing nutjob and loathed by the bourgeois white liberal Israeli establishment. The problem … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Benjamin Netanyahu, Benzion Netanyahu, Cardinal Ratzinger, Francisco Goya, Gideon Levy Haaretz, Hannah Arendt, jabotinsky, Jabotinsky Betar, Labor Zionism, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Martin Buber, Martin Heidegger, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Political Zionism, Pope Ratzinger, Spanish Inquisition, yair stern, Zeev Jabotinsky, Zionist revisionism
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the infidel, the bad and the ugly
How things can change in a thousand years, give or take a few decades or more. There was a time when Islam ruled Iberia. They hurled themselves out of the desert, and in Spain built a civilization that lasted almost … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Abd al-Rahman, abd al-Rahman III, Affonso X The Wise, Almansor Cordoba, Charles Martel Saint Martin of Tours, Cordoba mosque, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Malakite school of theology, Moorish Spain, Moslem Spain, Spanish Inquisition, visigoth spain, Ziryab Cordoban court
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BEDEVILED OF COMMON SENSE
Torture and mythology, the pincers and the book, these were the essential machinery of the European witch craze. Out of hallucination and suggestion was created a terrible empire of darkness which then acquired a life and momentum of its own, … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc.
Tagged Clouddragon, Colbert, Edward Gibbon, Francesco Maria Guazzo, H.C. Lea, H.C. Lea History of the Inquisition, Henry More, John Selden, Matthew Hopkins, Nicolas Remy, Salem Witch burning, Sir Francis Bacon, Spanish Inquisition, Witch burning, Witch Persecution, witch torture
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