Warrior neighbours

Crusader Valencia in its international context, collected essays of Father Robert I. Burns, SJ

This volume presents the impressive corpus of studies by Robert I. Burns, S.J., on the topic that he has spent a half-century exploring in meticulous detail: the Crusader Kingdom of Valencia. These studies focus on one of Europe’s greatest medieval monarchs, James the ...

Hampa y Sociedad en la Sevilla del Siglo de Oro

“El Hampa y la política no son desconocidas; hace cuatrocientos años eran incómodas socias en la ciudad de Sevilla… el centro de España de los Habsburgo, el mayor imperio comercial del siglo XVI”. Esta traducción de la investigación de Mary Elizabeth Perry pone finalmente a ...

Contesting archives

finding women in the sources

The contributors of "Contesting Archives" challenge the assumption that an archive is a neutral, immutable, and a historical repository of information. Instead, these historians view it as a place where decisions are made about whose documents - and therefore whose history - is important. Finding that women ...

The handless maiden

moriscos and the politics of religion in Early Modern Spain

The handless maiden

moriscos and the politics of religion in early modern Spain

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 remarkable exploration of ...