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Hace 2 días · By the 17th century, the Catholic Church and Spain had a close bond, attesting to the fact that Spain was virtually free of Protestantism during the 16th century. In 1620, there were 100,000 Spaniards in the clergy; by 1660 the number had grown to about 200,000, and the Church owned 20% of all the land in Spain.
Hace 1 día · The Duchy of Venice was born in the 9th century from the Byzantine territories of Maritime Venice. According to tradition, the first doge was elected in 697, but this figure is of dubious historicity and comparable to that of the exarch Paul, who, similarly to the doge, was assassinated in 727 following a revolt.
Hace 2 días · t. e. The Portuguese Empire ( Portuguese: Império Português, European Portuguese: [ĩˈpɛ.ɾju puɾ.tuˈɣeʃ] ), also known as the Portuguese Overseas ( Ultramar Português) or the Portuguese Colonial Empire ( Império Colonial Português ), was composed of the overseas colonies, factories, and later overseas territories, governed by the ...
Hace 1 día · [need quotation to verify] Prior to the scaling of European colonialism in the 19th century, the Portuguese were the only imperial power to gain much more than a foothold in Africa beginning in the 16th century with the establishment of Portuguese Angola and the unsuccessful Kongo-Portuguese wars, along with Portuguese Mozambique and the Portuguese conflict with Kilwa, which the Portuguese ...
Hace 2 días · THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY. The 16th century, which was troubled by many serious dissensions between town and gown, opened with a composition between the two parties, made by three arbitrators under the auspices of Margaret, Countess of Richmond and Derby, the mother of King Henry VII (1503). This award regulated the status of those persons who were ...
Hace 3 días · Paul Kliber Monod has written an ambitious and very welcome book, which seeks to investigate the relationship between Christianity and kingship across the whole of Christian Europe in the 'long' seventeenth century from 1589 to 1715. This is certa inly a brave enterprise, calling as it does for a working knowledge of several languages and the ...
Hace 2 días · Young brings to our attention a ‘new kind’ of ghost narrative within the Catholic community in the 18th century, which came to ‘reassure and comfort as much as admonish and avenge’ (p. 104). This continued into the beginning of the next century, as ghost stories often were intriguing ‘curiosities’ as much as ‘fearful testimonies of divine providence’ (p. 114).
