Humanist, Inquisitor, Mystic: Cardinal Jimenez de Cisneros
Felipe Fernandez-Armesto explores the horizons, activities and seeming contradictions of pre-Reformation Spain's cleric-of-all-trades.
Felipe Fernandez-Armesto explores the horizons, activities and seeming contradictions of pre-Reformation Spain's cleric-of-all-trades.
In May of 1588, Spain's great Armada set sail, bent on the invasion and conquest of Elizabethan England. Simon Adams re-examines the strategic considerations that underpinned the actions of both England and Spain before and after the Armada.
A myth for all seasons - the treatment through the centuries of Spain's medieval hero as a blend of Robin Hood and King Arthur provides revealing insights into the political needs of both his contemporary and more recent biographers.
Helen Graham on the political coalitions in Spain in the 1930s and their role in blocking Fascism.
Paul Preston follows the unsettled road leading to the clash between the Republicans and Nationalists.
Paul Preston and Helen Graham discuss the tension developing in the Europe of the 30s as the Left attempted to unite against the growth of Fascism and the bloody timetable of political collapse, uprisings and mutiny that transformed a half-successful coup d'etat into a protracted civil war.
Paul Preston assesses how time has obscured the legacy of the Spanish military rebel and leader.
Franco's traditional image has been as a canny neutral in the struggle between the Allied and Axis powers. But in 1940 his aspirations for an African empire drew him to within an ace of war with Britain.
Duncan Shaw looks at how the entry of Spain into the EEC in 1985 furthered its process of integration into the European community. During the Franco years, the ostracised regime used football to initiate this gradual road towards acceptance. The Catalans and the Basques, however, used football as a means of popular protest.
Charles Mordaunt, Third Earl of Peterborough, 1658-1735, is probably best remembered as the captor of Barcelona in 1705. Aram Bakshian Jr. shows that, in addition to being a soldier, he was also 'a sailor, courtier, conspirator, diplomat, wit and rake'.