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Historians--some specializing in the Middle Ages, some in religion, and some in a particular European country--describe the major areas scholars are working in

This book examines the story of the ‘discovery of America’ through the prism of the history of the Franciscans, a socio-religious movement with a unique doc

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This book explores how the Spanish kingdoms were highly influenced by the arrival of the Dominican and Franciscan friars in the thirteenth century.