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Jews were the other big community in Seville during Moorish times and around 5,000 of them lived in the Santa Cruz Quarter until they were expelled during the Spanish Inquisition in the 15th century. Today Santa Cruz is a popular tourist area with narrow lanes, shops and restaurants. Palacio ...
AsSpain established its overseas empire, the Inquisition followed. Tribunals were established in major colonial centres such as Mexico City, Lima and Cartagena. In the colonies, the Inquisition focused not only on religious orthodoxy but also on maintaining Spanish control over diverse populations. The...
Until this day, there exist Christian communities with clear Jewish roots dating back to this time. There are people in the United States (in New Mexico and Arizona) as well as in South and Central America, who are descended from Spanish or Portuguese settlers, and who have strange customs ...
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visiting the produce everyday for 4 months as I read about Goya and the Spanish Inquisition,I made V for Vendetta,studio action movie for which I learned everything I could about freedom fighters whom otherwise may be c...
Cecilia Félix Díaz described her father as someone from the left and a defender of universal values, as well as an admirer of the Jewish people due to their contributions to philosophy, literature and science, both in Mexico and in the world. ...
by royalty after he conquered the Aztecs inMexico; and was rebuilt in the mid-20th century after it was bombarded and largely destroyed during the Spanish Civil War. I’ve only looked at it from the outside, but there’s a sizable army museum inside, for those interested in war ...
1661-1700. The last Habsburg King of Spain and the ruler of nearly all of Italy, the Spanish territories in the Southern Low Countries, and Spain's overseas Empire, stretching from Mexico to the Philippines.
As a writer working across different genres and themes, her secular writings, in particular, garnered the discontent of clerical authorities. Sor Juana lived during an epoch when the Catholic Church held immense power and theInquisitionwas active in colonial Mexico. Not surprisingly, the nun’s pa...