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Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
365 pages ; 25 cm
Description
On a mission of revenge, and in the guise of English businessman Sebastian Foxx, exiled Sebastião Raposa returns to Lisbon, stalking the ruthless Inquisitor priest Pedro Azinheiro who imprisoned his parents ten years earlier. When a twist of fate turns his carefully laid plans to chaos, he will be forced to choose between surrendering to bloodlust or serving the cause of mercy.
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Series
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
549 pages ; 25 cm.
Description
"Reinmar of Bielawa, sometimes known as Reynevan, is a healer, a magician, and according to some, a charlatan. When a thoughtless indiscretion forces him to flee his home, he finds himself pursued not only by brothers bent on vengeance but by the Holy Inquisition. In a time when tensions between Hussite and Catholic countries are threatening to turn into war and mystical forces are gathering in the shadows, Reynevan's journey will lead him to the...
Publisher
Distributed by PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 240 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"For centuries the historical records of the Inquistion have been locked away to become the subject of legend. In 1998 the Vatican opened these archves for the first time ever. Secret Files of the Inquistion unveils the incredible true story of the western world's most potent religion and its determination to maintain power at any cost. From the pages of secret documents hidden in European archives comes a tale of faith and fervor, of torture and...
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Screen legends Peter O'Toole and Sophia Loren light up the screen in the classic musical "MAN OF LA MANCHA" Imprisoned by the Spanish Inquisition, author Miguel de Cervantes (O'Toole) and his servant must perform his most celebrated story for his fellow inmates: the tale of Alonso Quijana, a man who has lost his mind ... and found his purpose. Renaming himself "Don Quixote de La Mancha," he sets out for a musical adventure unlike any other.
5) Ave María
Publisher
DistriMax, Inc
Pub. Date
[2006?]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 99 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The story of the mestiza daughter of the Spanish Duke of Cadiz and his Indian mistress. Maria grows up in the cultured home of the Duke, but following his death is persecuted, imprisoned, and eventually returns to her mother's village to help the indigenous people. She is pursued by the religious and civil authorities and finally executed as part of their Indian extermination plan.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
xx, 363 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Description
"From historian James Reston comes an account of the pivotal events of 1492, a year when towering political ambitions, horrific religious excesses, and a drive toward adventure and conquest changed the world forever. This book chronicles one of the most savage epochs in history, the years of the Spanish Inquisition. In an effort to consolidate their power on the Iberian Peninsula, King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella turned to the priest Torquemada,...
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On the eve of the Jewish expulsion from Spain, Amalia Riba stands at a crossroads. In a country violently divided by religion, she must either convert to Christianity and stay safe, or remain a Jew and risk everything. It's a choice she's been walking toward her whole life, from the days of her youth when her family lit the Shabbat candles in secret. Back then, she saw the vast possibility of the world, outlined in the beautiful pen and ink maps her...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 114 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Told through the eyes of celebrated Spanish painter Francisco Goya. Set against political turmoil at the end of the Spanish Inquisition and start of the invasion of Spain by Napoleon's army. Captures the essence and beauty of Goya's work which is best known for both the colorful depictions of the royal court and its people, and his grim depictions of the brutality of war and life in 18th century Spain. When Goya's beautiful muse is accused of being...
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Series
Publisher
Lumen
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
656 pages : illustrations, facsimile, genealogical table, maps ; 23 cm.
Description
Olvidarás el fuego es la primera novela que narra la entrañable historia y tragedia de Luis de Carvajal, alias "Joseph Lumbroso", y de la suerte que corrieron sus manuscritos y memorias hallados en 2016 en una casa de subastas en Nueva York, tras haber sido robados del Archivo General de la Nación. La historia silenciada a lo largo de cuatro siglos del éxodo sefardí de España y Portugal, y de los esfuerzos para sobrevivir a migraciones, epidemias,...
Author
Publisher
Debolsillo
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
544 pages ; 20 cm
Description
Una apasionante aventura en la corte aragonesa del siglo XIII. Los naipes le hablaban de forma confusa, con augurios inquietantes. Le anunciaban nubarrones tormentosos sin concretar su naturaleza, lo que la llevaba a temer por la salud de los suyos y el buen gobierno de Belcamino. Siglo XIII. poca de la persecucin de los ctaros, de las Cruzadas y del comienzo de la Inquisicin. Ante la masacre que est sufriendo su pueblo, Braira de Fanjau, una joven...
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Isabel Perez is a sixteen-year-old who dreams of writing poetry, love, and being with the young nobleman Diego Altamirano; but in Trujillo, Spain in 1481 such a love is forbidden by the boy's family because Isabel's families are conversos, new Christians, but in the privacy of their home they still practice Judaism--a secret that could destroy them all when the Inquisition reaches Trujillo and they are forced to flee to the uncertain safety of Portugal,...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
478 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
Description
In mid-thirteenth century Provence, Dolssa de Stigata is a fervently religious girl who feels the call to preach, condemned by the Inquisition as an "unnatural woman," and hunted by the Dominican Friar Lucien who fears a resurgence of the Albigensian heresy; Botille is a matchmaker trying to protect her sisters from being branded as gypsies or witches--but when she finds the hunted Dolssa dying on a hillside, she feels compelled to protect her, a...
13) Linaje de brujos
Author
Publisher
Grijalbo
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
285 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
Ambientada en los oscuros tiempos del México virreinal, en el marco de las temibles persocuciones de la Inquisición, Linaje de Brujos narra la historia del ticitl Miguel Bernardino, un curandero indígena que es señalado por el obispo Foncerrada como hechicero y sacrílego. El prelado tiene bajo su mando a Jesús, el párroco de Taxco, un amigo de la infancia de Bernardino a quien obliga a buscar las pruebas condenatorias. Pronto se descubre que...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (141 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 4 lobby cards in an envelope.
Description
Forced to flee his home during the Spanish Inquisition, nobleman Pedro De Vargas escapes with a beautiful peasant girl and joins Cortez on his dangerous expedition to conquer Mexico.
15) Casanova
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 111 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Casanova has to begin searching for a wife. He is a womanizer with many conquests and If he cannot show he is living a more respectable life, the Church will throw him out of Venice. He is quickly engaged to Victoria, a woman with a pure reputation. As soon as that is arranged, he meets Francesca, a feminist who hates all he stands for. He pretends to be someone else to get into her good graces, and soon finds out she is engaged to Papprizzio, a man...
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