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<p>[QUOTE="pomyluy, post: 6350613, member: 114240"]Those numbers have long since been disproven. Modern estimates are something like 5,000 executions <i>total</i> throughout the entire Spanish Inquisition, and 30,000 murders is at the very top end of estimates of the St Bartholomew's Day massacre. (10-20,000 is more likely the true death toll.) Great tragedies both, but the reality is nowhere near as grossly inflated as old polemical histories would have us believe.</p><p><br /></p><p>Surprisingly, the number of women burned as witches during the same time period is significantly higher (~50,000) than all deaths attributed to the Inquisition and the massacre of the Huguenots. Yet for some reason that fact isn't nearly as well-known.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="pomyluy, post: 6350613, member: 114240"]Those numbers have long since been disproven. Modern estimates are something like 5,000 executions [I]total[/I] throughout the entire Spanish Inquisition, and 30,000 murders is at the very top end of estimates of the St Bartholomew's Day massacre. (10-20,000 is more likely the true death toll.) Great tragedies both, but the reality is nowhere near as grossly inflated as old polemical histories would have us believe. Surprisingly, the number of women burned as witches during the same time period is significantly higher (~50,000) than all deaths attributed to the Inquisition and the massacre of the Huguenots. Yet for some reason that fact isn't nearly as well-known.[/QUOTE]
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