Internet History Sourcebooks Project
Fordham University: Medieval Sourcebook: Inquisition
Article provides a detailed introduction to the inquisition as a legal proceeding rather than the Spanish relgio-secular institutional body that the word more often brings to mind.
University of Missouri
Famous Trials: The Trial of Galileo
An account of the trial of Galileo, who was brought before the Roman Inquisition in the early 1600s.
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame: The Inquisition Collection
This collection of more than 500 original documents from the Spanish Inquisition features the Holy Offices Manual of Instructions and the Index of Banned Books. The introductory information and notes are in English.
OpenStax
Open Stax: Europe on the Brink of Change
From a chapter on "The Americas, Europe, and Africa Before 1492," this section describes the European societies that engaged in conversion, conquest, and commerce and discusses the motives for and mechanisms of early European exploration.
Rice University
Rice University: The Galileo Project: Giordano Bruno
This is a brief but helpful biography. It contains an extensive list of sources and a few links to key words.
Rice University
Galileo Project: Inquisition
The Galileo Project provides a broad overview of the Inquisition, a legal institution in the Catholic Church charged with the eradication of heresies.
Rice University
Galileo Project: Procedure of the Roman Inquisition
This site from The Galileo Project of Rice University provides a medium length article describing the prosecution of the Roman Inquisition. The information is very interesting and worth checking out on the subject.
Other
The Folly of Giordano Bruno
A scholarly and thorough essay, complete with biographical and philosophical information.
University of Calgary
Isabella I the Catholic
This page is part of the University of Calgary History Department's award-winning "European Voyages of Exploration" website. It provides biographical information on Queen Isabella I of Castile and includes several images of Isabella and...
Rice University
Galileo Project: Historical Overview of the Inquisition
This article defines an inquisition, which is a legal proceeding of the Catholic Church and not restricted to a particular institution such as the Spanish Inquisition.
My Hero Project
My Hero: Galileo
"First to use a telescope to overserve the starts and planets," Galileo Galilei secretly published his work, which contradicted the Catholic Church's teachings. Use this site to learn about how Galileo's independence and courage made him...
A&E Television
Biography: Queen Isabella Farnese (1692 1766)
This resource offers a very brief biographical entry on Queen Isabella of Spain, also known as Isabella the Catholic.
Kenyon College
Kenyon College: Marginality and Community in Medieval Europe: Heretics
An overview of heretics and a link to the different heretical groups from a project designed by students at Kenyon College. Part of a larger examination of the marginality of groups in medieval Europe.
Curated OER
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High-quality zoomable image of Goya's satrical commentary on the religious abuses of the Inquisition, which lingered on in Spain well into the early nineteenth century.