Henry Charles Lea's four-volume history of the Spanish Inquisition, including a chapter on the 1391 massacres and Ferran Martinez's campaign. Its estimate of victims across Castile in 1391, widely repeated afterward, runs far higher than figures modern archival scholarship supports.
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Reliability TierThe standard early twentieth century archival history, still respected for its documentary range but predating the more conservative quantitative methods later historians such as Nirenberg and Meyerson bring to the same events; cited here as the origin of the widely repeated high estimate rather than as the atlas's own preferred figure. NotesThe standard early twentieth century archival history, still respected for its documentary range but predating the more conservative quantitative methods later historians such as Nirenberg and Meyerson bring to the same events; cited here as the origin of the widely repeated high estimate rather than as the atlas's own preferred figure. 1 Citation
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