Love, Religion and Politics in Fifteenth Century Spain
Biographical note
Ian Macpherson is Emeritus Professor of Spanish at the University of Durham, an Honorary Research Fellow at Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London, and a Comendador de la Orden de Isabel la Catolica.
Angus MacKay is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Edinburgh, a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and a Fellow of the British Academy. Both have published extensively on the fifteenth century in Spain.
Angus MacKay is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Edinburgh, a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and a Fellow of the British Academy. Both have published extensively on the fifteenth century in Spain.
Readership
Those interested in the social history, the history of ideas, and creative writing in medieval Spain.
Reviews
'...bring together a mot useful combination of historical context and literary phenomena…The authors write a lively, engaging style, always informed by the pertinence of history to their inquiry. The bibliography is highly efficient for primary and secondary references...'
Leyla Rouhia, Religious Studies Review, 1999.
Leyla Rouhia, Religious Studies Review, 1999.
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