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Thirty-five years ago, Kamen wrote a study of the Inquisition that received high praise. This present work, based on over 30 years of new research, ... More

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This book provides a comprehensive and compelling history of the reign of Ferdinand and Isabella form the origins and upbringing of the two rulers, ... More

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The first full-length study of sixteenth-century Spanish attitudes towards death and the afterlife.

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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 ... More

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This book challenges the reputation of the Spanish Inquisition as an instrument of religious persecution, torture and repressionand looks at its ... More

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This volume chronicles one of the most savage epochs in human history, the years of the Spanish Inquisition. Reston's engrossing narrative brings all ... More

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This is an examination of the Spanish Church over recent decades, as it responded to far-reaching societal change. Having disengaged from Francoism, ... More

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This book offers a systematic study of the trials for superstition in the Spanish Inquisition's two tribunals in Valencia and Barcelona in the period ... More

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Here historian Benjamin Ehlers studies the relations between Christians and moriscos in Valencia by analyzing the ideas and policies of archbishop ... More

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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 ... More

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"This is the first complete history of Spanish Catholicism in English. The history of the Spanish church is rich, complex, and controversial, and ... More

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One day in 1599, in the Spanish village of Saria, seven-year-old Maria Angela Astorch fell ill and died after gorging herself on unripened almonds. ... More

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In 1492, while Columbus set about "discovering" the Americas for Ferdinand and Isabella, at home the Spanish monarchy banished the Jews and ... More

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Discusses the effects of the arrival of the Portuguese in Sri Lanka in 1506.

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This book sets out to critically assess the strengths and weaknesses of Spain's Catholic identity in the early modern period. Traditionally the ... More

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The Spanish influence on California took hold between the mid-18th and early 19th centuries, as a result of the "mission system," an offshoot of ... More

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In Sexuality in the Confessional: A Sacrament Profaned, Stephen Haliczer places the current debate on sex, celibacy, and the Catholic Church in a ... More

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Women faced conflicting demands under Francisco Franco's program of National Catholicism, finding themselves at the center of the regime's efforts to ... More

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El Castiilo interior o Las moradas son el principal texto mistico de Teresa, describen un recorrido por los entresijos del espiritu en busca de la ... More

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Cuando se difundio su traduccion del Cantar de los cantares a partir del hebreo, fray Luis de Leon fue acusado de infringir la prohibicion del ... More

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In 1598 a man - branded the Calabrian Charlatan by his Spanish opponents--appeared in Venice claiming to be King Sebastian, the Portuguese monarch ... More

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