Culture and Control in Counter-Reformation Spain: Volume 7

by Anne J. Cruz

Book Overview

Contemporary cultural historians have located the Counter-Reformation as the most significant point in the material, intellectual, and spiritual development of Spain. Robust and full of productive contradictions, Spanish culture took a critical turn in 1492 when Ferdinand II, in his quest for purity and orthodoxy, expelled the Jews and Arabs from Spain.

Culture and Control in Counter-Reformation Spain examines the various...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816620261
• ISBN13: 9780816620265
• Release Date: December 1991
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.3" x 8.5"