
Thus, the Inquisition only acted after the book was published. , and that it would be ratified and expanded by the pragmatics of 1558 of Felipe II.

However, control of the books printed in the Crown of Castile - and of those imported from other states - corresponded to the civil authorities, as provided in the pragmatic of Jpromulgated by the Catholic Monarchs. The inquisitors did the same with the books of astrology and magic, of which around 1490 there was a burning of a large number of them from the University of Salamanca. Thus when they found the Talmud or other Hebrew books in the possession of Judeo - converts, they confiscated and destroyed them.


See also: Protestant Reformation in Spainįrom its foundation in 1478, the Spanish Inquisition showed great interest in books that could induce heresy in believers.
