History A-Level
Persecution and censorship
What Persecution and censorship means in History A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
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Persecution in 1559–62, marked by autos da fé and Valdés's index of prohibited books of 1558–59, largely suppressed organised Protestantism in Spain.
Topics that use Persecution and censorship
- Paper 3, Option 32: The Golden Age of Spain, 1474–1598 - 4 The campaign for orthodoxy, 1558–70 (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
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