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  Spanish Inquisition - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
However, the murder of the inquisidor Pedro Arbués in Zaragoza on September 15, 1485, caused public opinion to turn against the conversos and in favor of the Inquisition.
Moreover, with the coming of the Age of Enlightenment in the eighteenth century, increasing numbers of licenses to possess and read prohibited texts were granted.
The literature of the eighteenth century approaches the theme of the Inquisition from a critical point of view.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Spanish_inquisition   (9643 words)

  
 Mobile Alabama Public Library Databases
Literature Resource Center - Access biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of more than 120,000 authors from every age and literary discipline.
It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past.
It traces the usage of words through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of international English language sources, from classic literature and specialist periodicals to film scripts and cookery books.
www.mplonline.org /databases.htm   (1751 words)

  
 Italy
Leaders and then rulers of probably the most illustrious city of the Renaissance, Florence, the Medici family rose from the ranks of merchants and bankers.
Eventually, they contributed three Popes, two Queens of France, and the line of Grand Dukes of Tuscany until 1737, all the while as classic patrons of art, architecture, literature, and philosophy.
When the family first came to power in Florence, it was not through any formal office, position, or status.
www.friesian.com /italia.htm   (10172 words)

  
 Internet Modern History Sourcebook: The Early Modern West
Witchcraft Documents [At Medieval Sourcebook] inc. the Papal Bull of 1484, Johannes Nider on witches, and extracts from the Malleus malificaram
A splendid, and searchable, collection of over 1100 text articles on Columbus and the encounter of two worlds
Literature of the English Renaissance and Early Seventeenth Century [At ACCD]
www.fordham.edu /halsall/mod/modsbook1.html   (3979 words)

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