Sketches Europe's increasing acceptance of autonomous female rulers between the late Middle Ages and the French Revolution. This title surveys the governmental records of Europe's thirty women monarchs - as well as the obscure - describing how each of them achieved sovereign authority, wielded it, a[...]
Frontiers of Heresy is among the first major English-language contributions to the history of the Spanish Inquisition since Henry Charles Lea completed his classic curvey eighty years ago. Focusing on the lands beyond Castile, Professor Monter analyzes the activities of the Holy Office during an ?Ar[...]