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Baker Who Pretended to Be King of Portugal
Av Ruth MacKay
Inbunden, 2012
343 kr
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On August 4, 1578, in an ill-conceived attempt to wrest Morocco back from the hands of the infidel Moors, King Sebastian of Portugal led his troops to slaughter and was himself slain. Sixteen years later, King Sebastian rose again. In one of the most famous of European impostures, Gabriel de …
Baker Who Pretended to Be King of Portugal
Av Ruth MacKay
E-bok, 2012
742 kr
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On August 4, 1578, in an ill-conceived attempt to wrest Morocco back from the hands of the infidel Moors, King Sebastian of Portugal led his troops to slaughter and was himself slain. Sixteen years later, King Sebastian rose again. In one of the most famous of European impostures, Gabriel de …
The Limits of Royal Authority
Resistance and Obedience in Seventeenth-Century Castile
Häftad, 2007
787 kr
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In what is sometimes called the age of absolutism, Castilian nobles and commoners, tribunes and towns, were to a considerable degree able to resist and shape royal commands. Whereas there was little open conflict, there was sometimes a surprising degree of autonomy, rights and reciprocity on the …
The Limits of Royal Authority
Resistance and Obedience in Seventeenth-Century Castile
Av Ruth MacKay
Inbunden, 1999
1844 kr
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In what is sometimes called the age of absolutism, Castilian nobles and commoners, tribunes and towns, were to a considerable degree able to resist and shape royal commands. Whereas there was little open conflict, there was sometimes a surprising degree of autonomy, rights and reciprocity on the …
"Lazy, Improvident People"
Myth and Reality in the Writing of Spanish History
Av Ruth MacKay
Inbunden, 2006
1700 kr
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Since the early modern era, historians and observers of Spain, both within the country and beyond it, have identified a peculiarly Spanish disdain for work, especially manual labor, and have seen it as a primary explanation for that nation's alleged failure to develop like the rest of Europe. In …
"Lazy, Improvident People"
Myth and Reality in the Writing of Spanish History
Av Ruth MacKay
Häftad, 2006
518 kr
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Since the early modern era, historians and observers of Spain, both within the country and beyond it, have identified a peculiarly Spanish disdain for work, especially manual labor, and have seen it as a primary explanation for that nation's alleged failure to develop like the rest of Europe. In …
Waiting for the Sky to Fall
The Age of Verticality in American Narrative
Av Ruth MacKay
Häftad, 2018
669 kr
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Life in a Time of Pestilence
The Great Castilian Plague of 1596-1601
Av Ruth MacKay
Inbunden, 2019
653 kr
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From the Middle Ages onwards, deadly epidemics swept through portions of Spain repeatedly, but the Castilian Plague at the end of the sixteenth century was especially terrible. In late 1596, a ship carrying the plague docked in Santander, and over the next five years the disease killed some 500,000 …
Life in a Time of Pestilence
The Great Castilian Plague of 1596–1601
Av Ruth MacKay
E-bok, 2019
624 kr
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From the Middle Ages onwards, deadly epidemics swept through portions of Spain repeatedly, but the Castilian Plague at the end of the sixteenth century was especially terrible. In late 1596, a ship carrying the plague docked in Santander, and over the next five years the disease killed some 500,000 …
Life in a Time of Pestilence
The Great Castilian Plague of 1596–1601
Av Ruth MacKay
E-bok, 2019
624 kr
Lägg i varukorg
From the Middle Ages onwards, deadly epidemics swept through portions of Spain repeatedly, but the Castilian Plague at the end of the sixteenth century was especially terrible. In late 1596, a ship carrying the plague docked in Santander, and over the next five years the disease killed some 500,000 …
