Juan Antonio Llorente's early nineteenth century history of the Spanish Inquisition, drawn from his own access to the institution's archives as its general secretary before its temporary 1808 abolition. His claim of 31,912 persons burned at the stake across the Inquisition's history became the foundation of the high-casualty tradition that later scholarship revised sharply downward.
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Reliability TierThe founding primary account of the Inquisition's casualty toll, written by a former insider with real archival access but no modern cross-verification against the surviving trial record; cited here specifically as the origin and standard-bearer of the older high estimate, honestly labeled as a historical claim rather than independently verified quantitative history. NotesThe founding primary account of the Inquisition's casualty toll, written by a former insider with real archival access but no modern cross-verification against the surviving trial record; cited here specifically as the origin and standard-bearer of the older high estimate, honestly labeled as a historical claim rather than independently verified quantitative history. 1 Citation
AuthorJuan Antonio Llorente, former general secretary of the Spanish Inquisition (1789 to 1801) 1 PublisherGeorge B. Whittaker, London (abridged English translation, translator not credited on the title page) 1 Publication Year URLhttps://www.gutenberg.org/files/38354/38354-h/38354-h.htm 1 Sources
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- Religious Events, 2 claims: 1 scholarly debate, 1 general references.
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