Author: Newberry Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Portugal
Languages : en
Pages : 744
Book Description
A Catalogue of the Greenlee Collection, the Newberry Library, Chicago
Author: Newberry Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Portugal
Languages : en
Pages : 744
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Portugal
Languages : en
Pages : 744
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A Social History of Black Slaves and Freedmen in Portugal, 1441-1555
Author: A. Saunders
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521231507
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
This book is a detailed study of black slavery in Portugal during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521231507
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
This book is a detailed study of black slavery in Portugal during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
The Baker Who Pretended to Be King of Portugal
Author: Ruth MacKay
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226501108
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
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 Espinosa, an ex-soldier and baker by trade—and most likely under the guidance of a distinguished Portuguese friar—appeared in a Spanish convent town passing himself off as the lost monarch. The principals, along with a large cast of nuns, monks, and servants, were confined and questioned for nearly a year as a crew of judges tried to unravel the story, but the culprits went to their deaths with many questions left unanswered. Ruth MacKay recalls this conspiracy, marked both by scheming and absurdity, and the legal inquest that followed, to show how stories of this kind are conceived, told, circulated, and believed. She reveals how the story of Sebastian, supposedly in hiding and planning to return to claim his crown, was lodged among other familiar stories: prophecies of returned leaders, nuns kept against their will, kidnappings by Moors, miraculous escapes, and monarchs who die for their country. As MacKay demonstrates, the conspiracy could not have succeeded without the circulation of news, the retellings of the fatal battle in well-read chronicles, and the networks of rumors and correspondents, all sharing the hope or belief that Sebastian had survived and would one day return. With its royal intrigues, ambitious artisans, dissatisfied religious women, and corrupt clergy, The Baker Who Pretended to Be King of Portugal will undoubtedly captivate readers as it sheds new light on the intricate political and cultural relations between Spain and Portugal in the early modern period and the often elusive nature of historical truth.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226501108
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
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 Espinosa, an ex-soldier and baker by trade—and most likely under the guidance of a distinguished Portuguese friar—appeared in a Spanish convent town passing himself off as the lost monarch. The principals, along with a large cast of nuns, monks, and servants, were confined and questioned for nearly a year as a crew of judges tried to unravel the story, but the culprits went to their deaths with many questions left unanswered. Ruth MacKay recalls this conspiracy, marked both by scheming and absurdity, and the legal inquest that followed, to show how stories of this kind are conceived, told, circulated, and believed. She reveals how the story of Sebastian, supposedly in hiding and planning to return to claim his crown, was lodged among other familiar stories: prophecies of returned leaders, nuns kept against their will, kidnappings by Moors, miraculous escapes, and monarchs who die for their country. As MacKay demonstrates, the conspiracy could not have succeeded without the circulation of news, the retellings of the fatal battle in well-read chronicles, and the networks of rumors and correspondents, all sharing the hope or belief that Sebastian had survived and would one day return. With its royal intrigues, ambitious artisans, dissatisfied religious women, and corrupt clergy, The Baker Who Pretended to Be King of Portugal will undoubtedly captivate readers as it sheds new light on the intricate political and cultural relations between Spain and Portugal in the early modern period and the often elusive nature of historical truth.
Europeans in West Africa, 1540-1560
Author: John William Blake
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1317139119
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Texts dealing with Portuguese and Castilian enterprise, translated into English and edited. The main pagination of this and the following volume (Second Series 87) is continuous. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1942.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1317139119
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Texts dealing with Portuguese and Castilian enterprise, translated into English and edited. The main pagination of this and the following volume (Second Series 87) is continuous. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1942.
a list of valuable old books
Author: bernard quartich
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 682
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 682
Book Description
British Museum Catalogue of printed Books
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 782
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 782
Book Description
The Calabrian Charlatan, 1598–1603
Author: E. Olsen
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230597149
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 197
Book Description
In 1598 a man - branded the Calabrian Charlatan by his Spanish opponents - appeared in Venice claiming to be King Sebastian, the Portuguese monarch who disappeared in battle some twenty years before. Over the next five years Venetians, Spaniards, and Portuguese wrangled over the true character and identity of the man. Was he a lunatic? Was he an impostor? Was he a messianic king? Eric Olsen uses this strange event to explore Portuguese millenarianism and how a group of Portuguese rebels sought to exploit it to free their nation from Spain.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230597149
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 197
Book Description
In 1598 a man - branded the Calabrian Charlatan by his Spanish opponents - appeared in Venice claiming to be King Sebastian, the Portuguese monarch who disappeared in battle some twenty years before. Over the next five years Venetians, Spaniards, and Portuguese wrangled over the true character and identity of the man. Was he a lunatic? Was he an impostor? Was he a messianic king? Eric Olsen uses this strange event to explore Portuguese millenarianism and how a group of Portuguese rebels sought to exploit it to free their nation from Spain.
The Historians' History of the World
Author: Henry Smith Williams
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1394
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1394
Book Description
Catalogue
Author: Bernard Quaritch (Firm)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 1054
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 1054
Book Description