[2] Green disagrees with the notion of a Black Legend of the Spanish Inquisition and often quotes sixteenth-century sources, regarding the institution's abuse of power in Latin America, and is often cited regarding this subject.
[3] His book, A Fistful of Shells won the 2019 Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Global Cultural Understanding.
He notes that the great unchecked power given to inquisitors meant that they were "widely seen as above the law",[9] and sometimes had motives for imprisoning, while sometimes executing alleged offenders other than for the purpose of punishing religious nonconformity, mainly in Ibero-America.
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