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Book The Spanish Stage in the Time of Lope de Vega

Download or read book The Spanish Stage in the Time of Lope de Vega written by Hugo Albert Rennert and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Prince and the Infanta

    Book Details:
  • Author : Glyn Redworth
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2003-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780300101980
  • Pages : 244 pages

Download or read book The Prince and the Infanta written by Glyn Redworth and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the night of 7th March 1623, the Prince of Wales and the Duke of Buckingham knocked on the door of the British embassy in Madrid. Their unsolicited arrival began one of the most bizarre episodes in British history, as the Protestant heir to the Stuart throne struggled to win the Spanish Infanta as his bride. secure a marriage between the leading Protestant and Catholic royal families and heal Europe's century-old division into warring Christian camps. The effort was a diplomatic disaster. It split political and religious opinion in Britain, alienated much of Italy and Germany, confused the Spaniards (who thought that the English crown was about to convert), and failed to secure a marriage or to resolve the Thirty Years' War. explanation of this pivotal moment and tells a fascinating story of early modern politicking, cultural misunderstanding and religious confusion.

Book Don Phelipe segundo deste nombre  por la gracia de Dios Rey de Castilla  de Leon  de Aragon  de las dos Sicilias  de Hierusalem  de Nauarra  de Granada  de Toledo

Download or read book Don Phelipe segundo deste nombre por la gracia de Dios Rey de Castilla de Leon de Aragon de las dos Sicilias de Hierusalem de Nauarra de Granada de Toledo written by Collegio di Spagna and published by . This book was released on 1600 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Irish Migrants in Europe After Kinsale  1602 1820

Download or read book Irish Migrants in Europe After Kinsale 1602 1820 written by Thomas O'Connor and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The battle of Kinsale, 1601, fought during the Nine Years War of 1594-1603, marked a turning point in European and Irish history. Although the political power of the Gaelic nobility was broken and royal authority in the kingdom was enhanced, Ireland remained strategically important for other European powers, especially Spain and France. Therefore, when political, social and religious changes at home caused many Irish to migrate, temporarily or permanently, they headed for Habsburg and Bourbon territories.

Book The Irish in Europe  1580 1815

Download or read book The Irish in Europe 1580 1815 written by Thomas O'Connor and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Irish presence in England, France, and Spain is the subject of a dozen papers edited by O'Connor (history, National U. of Ireland, Maynooth). The contributors (lecturers and four graduate students in history and a librarian) examine Irish immigration to France based on archival sources there, th

Book The Battle of Kinsale

Download or read book The Battle of Kinsale written by Hiram Morgan and published by Spotlight Poets. This book was released on 2004 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Sea in European History

Download or read book The Sea in European History written by Luc François and published by Plus. This book was released on 2001 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Jesuit Order As a Synagogue of Jews

Download or read book The Jesuit Order As a Synagogue of Jews written by Robert A. Maryks and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2010 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In "The Jesuit Order as a Synagogue of Jews" the author explains how Christians with Jewish family backgrounds went within less than forty years from having a leading role in the foundation of the Society of Jesus to being prohibited from membership in it. The author works at the intersection to two important historical topics, each of which attracts considerable scholarly attention but that have never received sustained and careful attention together, namely, the early modern histories of the Jesuit order and of Iberian purity of blood concerns. An analysis of the pro- and anti-converso texts in this book (both in terms of what they are claiming and what their limits are) advance our understanding of early modern, institutional Catholicism at the intersection of early modern religious reform and the new racism developing in Spain and spreading outwards.

Book Philip III and the Pax Hispanica  1598 1621

Download or read book Philip III and the Pax Hispanica 1598 1621 written by Paul C. Allen and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Impoverished and exhausted after fifty years of incessant warfare, the great Spanish Empire at the turn of the sixteenth century negotiated treaties with its three most powerful enemies: England, France, and the Netherlands. This intriguing book examines the strategies that led King Philip III to extend the laurel branch to his foes. Paul Allen argues that, contrary to widespread belief, the king's gestures of peace were in fact part of a grand strategy to enable Spain to regain military and economic strength while its opponents were falsely lulled away from their military pursuits. From the outset, Allen contends, Philip and his advisers intended the Pax Hispanica to continue only until Spain was able to resume its battles--and defeat its enemies. Drawing on primary sources from the four countries involved, the book begins with a discussion of how Spanish foreign policy was formulated and implemented to achieve political and religious aims. The author investigates the development of Philip's "peace" strategy, the Twelve Years' Truce, and the decision to end the truce and engage in war with the Dutch, and then with the English and French. Renewed warfare was no failure of peace policy, Allen shows, but a conscious decision to pursue a consistent strategy. Nevertheless the negotiation for peace did represent a new diplomatic method with significant implications for both the future of the Spanish Empire and the practices of European diplomacy.

Book Spanish Irish Relations Through the Ages

Download or read book Spanish Irish Relations Through the Ages written by Declan M. Downey and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This collection of essays - representative of new historiographical approaches and perspectives concerning the study of Irish history from Continental European and Latin American sources - derives from the first International Symposium on Spanish-Irish Relations held in the Royal College of the Noble Irish at Salamanca." "The essays cover the medieval, early modern and modern-contemporary periods. The range and quality of the material and analysis presented here will be of special value to those interested in political, economic, social, legal and cultural history; the history of international relations; and diplomacy." "The contributors provide new and exciting insights based on original research into the cultural, economic, diplomatic and political dimensions of the centuries-old unique and special relationship between Spain and Ireland."--BOOK JACKET.

Book Spain in the Later Seventeenth Century  1665 1700

Download or read book Spain in the Later Seventeenth Century 1665 1700 written by Henry Kamen and published by Longman Publishing Group. This book was released on 1980 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Don Phelipe Quarto deste nombre  por la gracia de Dios Ry de Castilla  de Leon  de Aragon  de las dos Sicilias  De Hierusalem  de Portugal  de Nauarra  de Granada  de Toledo

Download or read book Don Phelipe Quarto deste nombre por la gracia de Dios Ry de Castilla de Leon de Aragon de las dos Sicilias De Hierusalem de Portugal de Nauarra de Granada de Toledo written by Collegio di Spagna and published by . This book was released on 1673 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Irish Communities in Early Modern Europe

Download or read book Irish Communities in Early Modern Europe written by Thomas O'Connor and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 1148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents the results of the most recent scholarly investigation into Irish communities on the Continent in the early modern period. Essays deal not only with the activities of military, political and ecclesiastical migrants in Spain and France but also with Irish merchants in the Low Countries, Irish industrial entrepreneurs in Sweden and Irish diplomats in Saxony. Of particular significance are the synthetic essays that set the results of archival research into rigorous interpretative frameworks based on the latest advances in European and Irish historiography. This ground-breaking collection confirms the centrality of migrants and migrant communities in the evolution of early modern Europe and sets a demanding but exciting agenda for future collaborative work in the field.

Book The She Apostle

    Book Details:
  • Author : Glyn Redworth
  • Publisher : OUP Oxford
  • Release : 2011-04-21
  • ISBN : 0191619876
  • Pages : 288 pages

Download or read book The She Apostle written by Glyn Redworth and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2011-04-21 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before dawn one morning in June 1612, an elderly Frenchman took charge of a carriage carrying a precious cargo near Tyburn Fields, London's notorious place of execution. It was heading for a house in Spitalfields, where a wizened Spanish woman was waiting to receive the mortal remains of freshly-martyred Catholic priests. Her name was Luisa de Carvajal and this book tells her story. Born into a great Spanish noble family, Luisa suffered a horribly abusive childhood and from her early years hankered to become a martyr for her faith. For almost 20 years she struggled to become possibly the first female missionary of modern times. In 1605 - the year of the Gunpowder Plot - she was secreted into England by the Jesuits, despite the fact that she spoke not a word of English. To everyone ́s surprise including her own, she steadily assumed a prominent role within London ́s underground Catholic community, setting up an unofficial nunnery, offering Roman priests a secure place to live, consoling prisoners awaiting execution, importing banned books, and helping persecuted Catholics to flee abroad. Throughout this time she ran the grave risk of imprisonment and execution, yet she miraculously managed to avoid this ultimate fate in spite of being arrested on a number of occasions. This vividly written biography, the first to give equal treatment to her double life in Spain and England, is based on Luisa's own autobiographical writings, her sparkling collection of poems and letters, and the detailed reminiscences by dozens of people who worked with her. In parts humorous, the book contains Luisa ́s biting descriptions of the cost of living in Shakespeare ́s London, the poor quality of food in the capital, as well as the weekend rowdiness of the English.

Book The Irish College at Alcal   de Henares

Download or read book The Irish College at Alcal de Henares written by Patricia O'Connell and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Little has been written on the Royal College of St George the Martyr at Alcalá de Henares, the last Irish College founded in Spain for the education of students for the priesthood during the time of religious persecution in Ireland. This study, based mainly on material in the Salamanca Archives at St Patrick's College, Maynooth, traces the lives of Irish clerical students from the time of Cromwell until the partial relaxation of the penal laws in the late 18th century. It is the story of the many young men who left Ireland in that period and risked the hazardous journey by sea and land to spend seven years studying Arts, Philosophy and Theology at the renowned University of Alcalá de Henares. Drawing on long-overlooked documents it gives an account of the College, its rectors and students (including names and places of origin), and the main events of its time. It offers a vivid insight into the reality of the students' lives - what they ate (and drank), the clothes they wore (and how these were paid for), the courses they followed, their pastimes, their connections with Ireland. It records passing Irish visitors to the College, from the high-ranking to the lowly, among them soldiers, needy priests and people eager and able to help the work of the College by loans and donations.

Book Saint Cicero and the Jesuits

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  • Author : Dr Robert Aleksander Maryks
  • Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
  • Release : 2013-06-28
  • ISBN : 1409480070
  • Pages : 196 pages

Download or read book Saint Cicero and the Jesuits written by Dr Robert Aleksander Maryks and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-06-28 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this commanding study, Dr Maryks offers a detailed analysis of early modern Jesuit confessional manuals to explore the order's shifting attitudes to confession and conscience. Drawing on his census of Jesuit penitential literature published between 1554 and 1650, he traces in these works a subtly shifting theology influenced by both theology and classical humanism. In particular, the roles of 'Tutiorism' (whereby an individual follows the law rather than the instinct of their own conscience) and 'Probabilism' (which conversely gives priority to the individual's conscience) are examined. It is argued that for most of the sixteenth century, books such as Juan Alfonso de Polanco's Directory for Confessors espousing a Tutiorist line dominated the market for Jesuit confessional manuals until the seventeenth century, by which time Probabilism had become the dominating force in Jesuit theology. What caused this switch, from Tutiorism to Probablism, forms the central thesis of Dr Maryks' book. He believes that as a direct result of the Jesuits adoption of a new ministry of educating youth in the late 1540s, Jesuit schoolmasters were compelled to engage with classical culture, many aspects of which would have resonated with their own concepts of spirituality. In particular Ciceronian humanitas and civiltà, along with rhetorical principles of accommodation, influenced Jesuit thinking in the revolutionary transition from medieval Tutiorism to modern Probabilism. By integrating concepts of theology, classical humanism and publishing history, this book offers a compelling account of how diverse forces could act upon a religious order to alter the central beliefs it held and promulgated. This book is published in conjunction with the Jesuit Historical Institute series 'Bibliotheca Instituti Historici Societatis Iesu'.

Book The Conversos and Moriscos in Late Medieval Spain and Beyond

Download or read book The Conversos and Moriscos in Late Medieval Spain and Beyond written by Kevin Ingram and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2009 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Converso and Morisco are the terms applied to those Jews and Muslims who converted to Christianity (mostly under duress) in late medieval Spain. "Converso and Moriscos Studies" examines the manifold cultural implications of these mass convertions.