Explores two major themes in Spanish historiography - the consequences of the expulsion of the Moriscos and the way in which the Habsburg Monarchy kept or lost

Institutions under royal control included not only the king's royal residences and the royal chapels attached to them, but also magnificent convent-palaces and

This is a collection of recent revisionist essays on the economic and social history of seventeenth-century Castile by Spanish historians. The aim if the volume

This thematically organised text provides a compelling introduction and guide to the key problems and issues of this highly controversial century. Offering a ge