Joseph Perez

Don Juan de Austria nos aparece siempre envuelto por la leyenda: su resonante triunfo en Lepanto, su repentina muerte en plena juventud, su protagonismo en la conjura de Antonio P rez, las vidriosas relaciones con su hermanastro Felipe II, el peso imborrable de su bastard a... Sin embargo, todos estos elementos no traban sino un drama que nos relata sutilmente slar Pietri en La visita en el tiempo, hasta trazarnos un personaje, como dice el profesor Joseph P rez en el pr logo, quebrado por la busca de su propia identidad. Pues si La visita en el tiempo puede leerse como una biograf a novelada de don Juan de Austria, el lector no podr escapar, l nea tras l nea, a la angustia en que se debate el personaje y que no es sino la misma materia que convierte todav a a su figura en tan enigm tica como sugestiva para los historiadores. Al punto que La visita en el tiempo es una de las mejores y m s perspicaces "novelas hist ricas" de la literatura hisp nica; tanto que fue galardonada con el prestigioso premio R mulo Gallegos.

This is a story of a Rose named Penny Planted who ventures outside her garden and discovers new friends and exciting adventures along the way.

Few events in the history of Spain have provoked as much controversy as the expulsion of the Jews in 1492. Conflicts within the Catholic Church, suspicions within the newly unified Spain, and the claims of Spanish merchants combined to make the Spain of Ferdinand and Isabella intolerant and inquisitorial. Yet the roots of Spanish anti-Semitism went deeper. In this concise survey of the expulsion of the Sephardic Jews, Joseph Pérez studies the evolution of the Jewish community in Spain from the time of the Visigoths to the reign of the Catholic kings. He explores the Jewish community’s role in creating and sustaining the vibrant cultural, political, and economic world of medieval Spain, and how growing religious intolerance, a pervasive resentment of the “others,” and a string of escalating encroachments culminated in expulsion.

A new history of the Spanish Inquisition--a terrifying battle for a unified faith. This is the story of 350 years of terror. Established by papal bull in 1478, the first task of the Spanish Inquisition was to question Jewish converts to Christianity and to expose and execute those found guilty of reversion. Authorities then turned on Spanish Jews in general, sending 300,000 into exile. Next in line were humanists and Lutherans. No rank was exempt. Children informed on their parents, merchants on their rivals, and priests upon their bishops. Those denounced were guilty unless they could prove their innocence. Nearly 32,000 people were publicly burned at the stake; the "fortunate" ones were flogged, fined, or imprisoned. Joseph P rez tells the history of the Spanish Inquisition from its medieval beginnings to its nineteenth-century ending. He discovers its origins in fear and jealousy and its longevity in usefulness to the state. He explores the inner workings of its councils, and shows how its officers, inquisitors, and leaders lived and worked. He describes its techniques of interrogation and torture, and shows how it refined displays of punishment as instruments of social control. The author ends his fascinating account by assessing the impact of the Inquisition over three and a half centuries on Spain's culture, economy, and intellectual life.