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A National Review column argues that the Spanish Inquisition was was “ahead of its time”, “pioneer of many judicial practices we now take for granted”, and that the conventional wisdom of a repressive and fanatical court "is the product of Elizabethan propaganda". Is this column correct?

by /u/smurfyjenkins in /r/AskHistorians

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