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With their dramatic descriptions of black masses and cannibalistic feasts, the records generated by the Basque witch-craze of 160914 provide us with arguably the most demonologically-stereotypical accounts of the witches sabbath or akelarre to have emerged from early modern Europe. While the trials have attracted scholarly attention, the most substantial monograph on the subject was written nearly forty years ago and most works have focused on the ways in which interrogators shaped the pattern of prosecutions and the testimonies of defendants. Invoking the Akelarre diverts from this norm by employing more recent historiographical paradigms to analyze the contributions of the accused. Through...
This work seeks to offer a new way of viewing the French Wars of 1792–1815. Most studies of this period offer international, political, and military analyses using the French Revolution and Napoleon as the prime mover. But this book focuses on military and civilian responses to French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars, throughout the rest of Europe and the Americas. It shows how the unprecedented mobilization of this era forged a generation of soldiers and civilians sharing a common experience of suffering, bequeathing the West with a new veteran sensibility. Using a range of sources, especially memoirs, this book reveals the adventure and suffering confronting ordinary soldiers campaigning in Europe and the Americas, and the burdens imposed on civilians enduring rising and falling empires across the West. It also reveals how the wars liberated slaves, serfs, and common people through revolutions and insurgencies.
This book revises what we thought we knew about one of the most famous witch hunts in European history. Between 1608 and 1614, thousands of witchcraft accusations were leveled against men, women, and children in the northern Spanish kingdom of Navarre. The Inquisition intervened quickly but incompetently, and the denunciations continued to accelerate. As the phenomenon spread, children began to play a crucial role. Not only were they reportedly victims of the witches’ harmful magic, but hundreds of them also insisted that witches were taking them to the Devil’s gatherings against their will. Presenting important archival discoveries, Lu Ann Homza restores the perspectives of illiterate, ...
In June 1609, two judges left Bordeaux for a territory at the very edge of their jurisdiction, a Basque-speaking province on the Atlantic coast called the Pays de Labourd. In four months, they executed up to 80 women and men for the crime of witchcraft, causing a wave of suspects to flee into Spain and sparking terror there. Witnesses, many of them children, described lurid tales of cannibalism, vampirism, and demonic sex. One of the judges, Pierre de Lancre, published a sensationalist account of this diabolical netherworld. With other accounts seemingly destroyed, this witch-hunt – France's largest – has always been seen through de Lancre's eyes. The narrative, re-told over the centurie...
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Este libro pretende completar los conocimientos existentes y sacar a la luz la historia de los hombres, pero, sobre todo, de las mujeres que se aventuraron a adentrarse en el Océano a lo largo del siglo XVII. ¿Cómo nos acercaremos a ellas? ¿a través de qué documentos? Como ya adelantábamos, las fuentes básicas de nuestra investigación serán las licencias de embarque; pero no las únicas, pues también aprovecharemos la rica e interesante información incluida en la correspondencia privada.
Si bien las campañas de Sir Arthur Wellesley desde Portugal fueron decisivas para lograr la derrota napoleónica en la Guerra de Independencia española, la zona oriental de la península tuvo también un protagonismo importante, ya que desde esta se abasteció de hombres y medios a los ejércitos patriotas que luchaban en el norte y el interior, y en ella, en concreto en Alicante, desembarcó en 1812 una expedición militar anglosiciliana para apoyar la penetración de Wellington hacia el centro peninsular. Basada en la documentación de cuatro importantes archivos del Reino Unido, esta obra arroja luz sobre un tema todavía poco conocido, al margen de la evolución de los ejércitos de We...
Por primera vez, se presenta una investigación detallada que identifica los valores artísticos y devocionales en la sociedad novohispana, basada en documentos históricos y crónicas de la época y los relicarios mismos que revelan detalles sobre su manufactura, sin importar el tamaño o las dimensiones del relicario, cada uno tiene una función: exponer las reliquias de los santos como un testimonio de santidad.
Accessible treatise on moral philosophy cautions against irreligiousness, superstition and fanaticism. Written by a founding father of New York Catholicism who was also the father of Cuban nationalism.
A mediados del siglo XIX la consolidación del modelo de estado liberal en España y el relevo de sus clases dirigentes se articulan como procesos en interacción. El presente trabajo pone el acento en los actores/sujetos históricos, en este caso, las elites políticas que representaron a la provincia de Huelva en los cuerpos legislativos durante la Década Moderada. Partiendo de este objetivo genérico se analizan los medios de acceso a la política, el uso del poder a través de la práctica parlamentaria y el perfil sociolíogico de estas elites, no sólo políticas sino también sociales y económicas.