There was a time in Spain when pork was the law. The Spanish Inquisition ramped up in the 1400s to brutally enforce a Christian culture. So while Spain’s Jewish and Muslim communities did not eat pork ...
Spain is a country steeped in history, and few eras are as captivating as the Moorish period. Between the 8th and 15th ...
When I was in primary school, one date in history was considered so important that it had its own ditty. Remember this? "Columbus sailed the ocean blue, in fourteen-hundred-and-ninety-two." But a ...
2005-11-06T06:01:02-05:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/903/189798-m.jpgJames Reston talked about his book Dogs of God: Columbus, the Inquisition, and the Defeat of ...
A defense of the Catholic Inquisition in Spain is contained in a book called Isabella of Spain, written by William Thomas Walsh. The book has just been published by Robert M. McBride & Company. In his ...
Cante flamenco, or traditional flamenco songs, evolved from the wailing cries of persecuted Moors, gypsies, and Jews excommunicated from España after the Spanish Inquisition. Their suffering spawned a ...
On his deathbed in Veracruz, Mexico, a man accused his acquaintance of this act of blasphemy: “Usar dentro de los Zapatos, unas Ymagenes que le parecieron de Santos.” The accusation, translated from ...
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Opera Southwest makes history with the world premiere of an ambitious flamenco opera, “Llantos 1492.” It’s a gut-punching story of love and defiance, set during the Spanish Inquisition, that’s ...