John Edwards

A Spanish Tragedy

Between 1609 and 1614, on royal orders, almost all of the formerly Muslim population of Spain, known as the moriscos , was expelled from the...

The Politics of Spanish Inquisitors

From 1478 a new ‘Inquisition’ against Christian ‘heresy’ spread throughout Spain and its overseas possessions in Europe (Sicily) and America. It...

A Conquistador Society? The Spain Columbus Left

John Edwards finds the roots of Spanish actions in America in the crusade mentality that won back the Iberian peninsula for Christendom in the Middle Ages.