The Crusade Against the Alpagensians

There is a connection between late medieval interest in the sufferings of Christ and torture by the Inquisition at the same time. The idea that you shouldn't have freedom of conscience strikes modern humans as something monstrous and appalling. But again, I think the story is slightly more complicated than perhaps either Protestant or Enlightenment perspectives on it. Some might sometimes be tempted to think because actually, the inquisitors are taking inordinate efforts to persuade the people that they are investigated. So that's what an inquisition is. It's an investigation.