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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “benjamin ehlers”
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  • Between Christians and Moriscos

    Juan de Ribera and Religious Reform in Valencia, 1568–1614

    by Benjamin Ehlers ...
    Series series The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science
    This "excellent study" shows how a Spanish archbishop laid the groundwork for the seventeenth-century expulsion of the Moriscos (James B. Tueller, Renaissance Quarterly).In early modern Spain, the monarchy's policy of converting all subjects to Christianity only created new forms of tension among ethnic religious groups. Those whose families had always been Christian defined themselves in ... Read more

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  • Between Christians and Moriscos

    Juan de Ribera and Religious Reform in Valencia, 1568–1614

    by Benjamin Ehlers ...
    Series Book 124 - The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science
    In early modern Spain the monarchy's universal policy to convert all of its subjects to Christianity did not end distinctions among ethnic religious groups, but rather made relations between them more contentious. Old Christians, those whose families had always been Christian, defined themselves in opposition to forcibly baptized Muslims (moriscos) and Jews (conversos). Here historian Benjamin ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

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  • Conquistadores

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    A sweeping, authoritative history of 16th-century Spain and its legendary conquistadors, whose ambitious and morally contradictory campaigns propelled a small European kingdom to become one of the formidable empires in the world“The depth of research in this book is astonishing, but even more impressive is the analytical skill Cervantes applies. . . . [He] conveys complex arguments in delightfully ... Read more

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  • Reconquest and Crusade in Medieval Spain

    by Joseph F. O'Callaghan ...
    Series series The Middle Ages Series
    Drawing from both Christian and Islamic sources, Reconquest and Crusade in Medieval Spain demonstrates that the clash of arms between Christians and Muslims in the Iberian peninsula that began in the early eighth century was transformed into a crusade by the papacy during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Successive popes accorded to Christian warriors willing to participate in the peninsular ... Read more

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  • Translation as Conquest

    Sahagún and Universal History of the Things of New Spain

    by Victoria Ríos Castaño ...
    Series Book 13 - Parecos y Australes. Ensayos de Cultura de la Colonia
    Fray Bernardino de Sahagún (1499-1590) directed the composition of an encyclopaedic work on the world of the Nahuas, Universal History of the Things of New Spain (ca. 1577-1579), for which he has received the title of pioneering ethnographer and anthropologist of colonial Mexico. Contextualizing Sahagún and his work in sixteenth-century Spain and America, this study presents him as a cultural ... Read more

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  • Our Lady of Guadalupe and Saint Juan Diego

    The Historical Evidence

    by Eduardo Chávez ...
    Series series Celebrating Faith: Explorations in Latino Spirituality and Theology
    In Our Lady of Guadalupe and Saint Juan Diego, Eduardo Chávez presents the most important points of the Great Guadalupan Event: the apparition of Our Lady of Guadalupe to Juan Diego, a recently converted indigenous man, in Mexico. Through a utilization of the numerous historical documents and investigations of this event, Chávez details the reality of what occurred in the cold winter of 1531. As ... Read more

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  • Christopher Columbus and the Participation of the Jews in the Spanish and Portuguese Discoveries

    by Meyer Kayserling ...
    Translated by Gross Charles ...
    Meyer Kayserling (1829 - 1905) was a leading Jewish scholar in the 19th Century. His studies of Jewry in the Iberian Peninsula were largely based on original manuscripts found in archives, libraries and private collections in Europe. His scholarship caught the eye of the Spanish government, wwhich asked Kayserling to produce a work in honor of the 400th anniversary of the discovery of America. ... Read more

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  • Spain, 1157-1300

    A Partible Inheritance

    by Peter Linehan ...
    Series Book 12 - A History of Spain
    Spain, 1157-1300 makes use of a vast body of primary and secondary source material to provide a balanced overview of a crucial period of Spanish as well as of European history.Examines the most significant phase of Spanish mainland developmentConsiders the profound intellectual consequences of Christian advances into Islamic SpainExplores the varying fortunes of the kingdoms of Castile and Aragon, ... Read more

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  • Raised to Rule

    Educating Royalty at the Court of the Spanish Habsburgs, 1601–1634

    by Martha K. Hoffman ...
    The children of Philip III of Spain (1578--1621) and Margarita de Austria (1584--1611) inherited great potential power: the abilities to declare war or make peace, to advocate religious doctrine, and to exert lasting influence over art, culture, and taste. The leadership provided by this generation raises the question of how royal families learned the roles they played in court, country, and on ... Read more

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  • Sin and Confession in Colonial Peru

    Spanish-Quechua Penitential Texts, 1560-1650

    by Regina Harrison ...
    Series series Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture
    A central tenet of Catholic religious practice, confession relies upon the use of language between the penitent and his or her confessor. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, as Spain colonized the Quechua-speaking Andean world, the communication of religious beliefs and practices—especially the practice of confession—to the native population became a primary concern, and as a result, ... Read more

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  • Mad for God

    Bartolome Sanchez, the Secret Messiah of Cardenete

    by Sara Tilghman Nalle ...
    Convinced he was the Elijah Messiah, the Spanish peasant Bartolomé Sánchez believed that God had sent him in divine retribution for the crimes committed by the Inquisition and the Church. Sánchez's vocal and intolerable religious deviance quickly landed him in the very court he believed he was sent to destroy. Fortunately for him, the first inquisitor assigned to his case came to believe that ... Read more

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