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Empire: How Spain Became a World Power, 1492-1763
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Empire: How Spain Became a World Power, 1492-1763
by Henry Kamen

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The Handless Maiden: Moriscos and the Politics of Religion in Early Modern Spain (Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the Ancient to the Modern)
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The Handless Maiden: Moriscos and the Politics of Religion in Early Modern Spain (Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the Ancient to the Modern)
by Mary Elizabet Perry

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In 1502, a decade of increasing tension between Muslims and Christians in Spain culminated in a royal decree that Muslims in Castile wanting to remain had to convert to Christianity. Mary Elizabeth Perry uses this event as the starting point for a...
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The Inquisitors
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The Inquisitors
by John Edwards

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Originally established by Ferdinand and Isabella in 1478, the Spanish Inquisition lasted for nearly 400 years until its abolition in 1843 and spread across multiple countries and continents in both the Old and New World. The entire system was headed by...
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Dreamer of the Calle De San Salvador
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Dreamer of the Calle De San Salvador
by Roger Osborne

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From the author of The Deprat Affair, history with a difference, presenting the dreams of a woman who lived at the time of the Spanish Inquisition. Spell-binding, poetic and apocalyptic, the dreams of Lucrecia de Léon lay in the archives of the...
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Flesh Inferno: Atrocities of Torquemada and the Spanish Inquisition. (Blood History Series 3)
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Flesh Inferno: Atrocities of Torquemada and the Spanish Inquisition. (Blood History Series 3)
by Simon Whitechapel

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A full-blooded and graphic account of the 'Grand Inquisitor' Tomas Torquemada, and the hideous tortures he invented during the Spanish Inquisition. National press coverage....
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Religious Authority in the Spanish Renaissance (Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political)
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Religious Authority in the Spanish Renaissance (Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political)
by Lu Ann Homza

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In Religious Authority in the Spanish Renaissance, Lu Ann Homza rejects the traditional view of the Spanish Renaissance as a battle of strict opposites in favor of a more nuanced history. Through analyses of Inquisition trials, biblical translations...
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The Medieval Spains (Cambridge Medieval Textbooks)
by Bernard F Reilly

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This book traces the political evolution of the Iberian peninsula....
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A time of triumph and of sorrow :Spanish politics during the reign of Alfonso XII, 1874-1885
by Earl Beck

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This first study in English of the reign of Alfonso XII and the creation of a quasi-parliamentary monarchy revises the pre­viously held estimate of the leadership of the frail young king, removing him from the shadow of his minister, the pragmatic...
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The Memoirs of Fray Servando Teresa de Mier
by Fray Teres Servando

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On December 12, 1794, Fray Servando Teresa de Mier preached a sermon in Mexico City that led to his arrest by the Inquisition. He was exiled to Spain--only to escape and spend ten years traveling throughout Europe, as none other than a French priest. So...
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Lucrecia's Dreams: Politics & Prophecy in Sixteenth-Century Spain
by Richard Kagan

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Branded by the Spanish Inquisition as an evil dreamer, a notorious mother of prophets, the teenager Lucrecia de Leó n had hundreds of bleak but richly imaginative dreams of Spain's future that became the stuff of political controversy and scandal....
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The Quest for El Cid
by Richard Fletcher

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Rodrigo Diaz, the legendary warrior-knight of eleventh-century Castile known as El Cid, is remembered today as the Christian hero of the Spanish crusade who waged wars of re-conquest for the triumph of the Cross over the Crescent. He is still honored in...
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Spain's Struggle for Europe, 1598-1668
by Ra Stradling

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This collection of essays contains an impressive body of the author's work on the history of Spain in the seventeenth century, which has focused particularly on the issues of high politics, international strategy and military infrastructure. The essays...
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Cultural Authority in Golden Age Spain (Parallax)
by Marina Brownlee

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Over the past several years, a series of extraordinary cutting edge developments have taken place in Golden Age Spanish studies. Important new issues have been addressed--and conceived--in innovative ways: questions of gender and sexuality; concepts of...
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Inquisition the Reign of Fear
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Inquisition the Reign of Fear
by Toby Green



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The Spanish Inquisition: A History
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The Spanish Inquisition: A History
by Joseph Perez



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Buried Mirror: Reflections on Spain & the New World
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Buried Mirror: Reflections on Spain & the New World
by Carlos Fuentes



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The Usatges of Barcelona: The Fundamental Law of Catalonia
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The Usatges of Barcelona: The Fundamental Law of Catalonia
by Donald J. Kagay



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Origins of the Inquisition in Fifteenth Century Spain
by Benzion Netanyahu

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Voyage of the Armada Spanish Story
by David Howarth

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Spanish Inquisition
by Henry Kamen

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