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An author compares finding records left by these people to discovering a gold mine and analyzes an “intellectual contiguity” between himself and these people in the essay “[these people] as Anthropologist.” These people’s work was controversially argued to be racially-motivated in a 1995 work by Benzion Netanyahu. (10[1])A member of this profession reportedly told his royal patron that “Judas Iscariot sold Christ for 30 pieces of silver; Your Highness is about to sell him for 30,000 ducats.” (10[1]-5[1])Béatrice de Planissoles’s meeting with a member of this profession appears in Emmanuel le Roy Ladurie’s microhistory Montaillou (10[1]-5[2])(“mon-tye-YOO”). Members of this profession who targeted (-5[1])the Friulian benandanti (10[1]-5[1])are chronicled in Carlo Ginzburg’s (10[2])The Night Battles. (-5[1])For 10 points, name this (-5[1])profession of Tomás de Torquemada, (10[6])who (10[1])led (10[2])an institution that carried out auto-da-fés. ■END■ (10[4]0[3])

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