El Viage de España de Antonio Ponz

A heart cries from exile. Memories of the country left behind mix with and get mixed up with the realities of the country of refuge. The stories in this collection taken together narrate the education of the heart, a heart uprooted by civil war in Spain and given refuge in Mexico, launched on a new life, to stitch them together to form a coherent whole.

El presente volumen aborda los aspectos más importantes de la vida y la época de la reina Isabel la Católica a través de una recopilación de diferentes artículos que se estructuran en cuatro grandes apartados: Isabel, de infanta a reina; Los fundamentos de la Monarquía Hispánica; La organización del reino; y La impronta de la reina. A lo largo de esta obra se estudian también algunos aspectos de la política exterior, en la que los reyes utilizaron las alianzas, la guerra, la diplomacia y los matrimonios de sus hijos, el éxito del descubrimiento de América y la conquista de...

Based on the original manuscript, this book also contains the proper iconography of the literary work. It includes an introduction accompanied by a biography & a critical study of the work, the complete text, footnotes at the bottom of each page, glossary, illustrations of the original text, two bibliographies, & an index.

A popular account of the reign of the Catholic Monarchs. Ch. 13 (pp. 247-265), "Los Reyes Católicos y la Inquisición: Judíos y moriscos", deals with the establishment of the Inquisition and the expulsion of the Jews in 1492. Asserts that the Catholic Kings' abandonment of their protective policy toward the Jews in 1487 was motivated by religious and political considerations, not by an antisemitic attitude in the modern sense of the term. The decree of expulsion was intended to provoke the conversion of the Jews, not their mass emigration.