3,708円 The dramatic one-thousand-year history of Jews in Spain comes to life in Exiles in Sepharad. Jeffrey Gorsky vividly relates this colorful period of Jewish history, from the era when Jewish culture was at its height in Muslim Spain to the horrors of the Inquisition and the Expulsion. Twenty percen...

7,187円 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. Maria's sister Isabel, a nun, came to view the body with her mother superior, an ecstatic mystic and visionary named Maria Angela Serafina. Overcome ...

5,573円 With an empire stretching across central Mexico, unmatched in military and cultural might, the Aztecs seemed poised on the brink of a golden age in the early sixteenth century. But the arrival of the Spanish changed everything. Imperialism and the Origins of Mexican Culture chronicles this violen...

607円 A history of the British Battalion of the XVth International Brigade, of the two thousand British volunteers who fought, bled and died on Spanish soil between August 1936 and December 1938. The killed and missing numbered five hundred, the wounded over twelve hundred; many were incapacitated for ...

607円 This is not yet another book about the Civil War, and its author is not yet another academic jumping on the Spanish band wagon. The book is about what Burnett Bolloten in the opening paragraph of his remarkable book (‘T***he Spanish Civil War. Revolution and Counterrevolution***’) calls “a far re...

2,122円 A powerful story of love and loss from the beloved internationally bestselling author, Tamara McKinley, who also writes as Sunday Times bestseller Ellie Dean. For fans of Lesley Pearse and Susan Lewis. So this is Paris, she thought in awe. Spread out before her beneath a clear blue sky, it was li...

729円 No man is closer to a woman than her confessor, not her father, not her brother, not her husband. -Spanish saying Vicente de Rocamora, the epitome of a young renaissance man in 17th century Spain, questions the goals of the Inquisition and the brutal means used by King Philip IV and the Roman Chu...

1,054円 "Em Junho de 1998 aconteceu na República da Guiné-Bissau um golpe de estado militar seguido, sem solução de continuidade, por uma guerra civil sem quartel. Não se tratava, obviamente, do primeiro golpe militar africano. Mas, para Portugal, era uma ocasião especial por razões de natureza política ...

729円 In a time of intolerance, following your conscience is a dangerous choice... "In the meantime, a credible report caused all ecclesiastics of the Catholic Church to lament and weep." -Prudentius of Troyes, Annales Bertiniani, anno 839 On Ascension Day May 22, 838, Bishop Bodo, chaplain, confessor,...

729円 A new life and a new name ... House of Rocamora, a novel of the 17th century, continues the exceptional life of roguish Vicente de Rocamora, a former Dominican friar, confessor to the Infanta of Spain, and almost Inquisitor General. After Rocamora arrives in Amsterdam at age forty-two, asserts he...

1,581円 As 14 batalhas decisivas da história de Portugal. São Mamede | Ourique | Aljubarrota | Ceuta | Diu | Goa | Alcácer Quibir | Alcântara | Montes Claros | Buçaco | Porto | Incursões Monárquicas | La Lys | Tridente «Mas qual o segredo das muitas vitórias militares dos Portugueses? A inferioridade num...

878円 Conheça as histórias que a História não inscreveu nos manuais de liceu! Tudo o que de mais curioso ainda há para contar sobre os reis e rainhas portugueses. Além da intimidade, da vida familiar e das desventuras românticas dos soberanos portugueses, mergulhe também nas zonas obscuras da política ...