The dissemination of the mathematical science in seventeenth-century Spain, as well as the introduction of the Neperian logarithms, is owed to the Scottish Jesuit priest Hugh Semple, seminarian at the Scottish College of Madrid, which his uncle…

Undoubtedly, Argenis, novel and political treatise alike, was one of the books that proliferated in the Spanish libraries of the Golden Age. Its style influenced Baltasar Gracian's prose; Calderón de la Barca adapted its plot for his comedy Argenis y…

The English Catholics in exile in Europe created whatare known as ‘English Colleges’, Jesuit seminars where they were ordained to the priesthood, with the risky mission of secretly returning to their country to restore Catholicism. In Spain rose…

"Romance Primero. // Despues que el dorado Apolo / entre rayos fulminantes / sale despreciando auroras / en reflexos de diamante. / Quando parecen topacios, / los balcones orientales / que aljofarando sus perlas / son del amor nueuo esmalte ..."

Cedula Real. Para enviar al Sr Secretario D. Andrés de Prada. Para los oficiales de la Casa Real que van sirviendo y acompañando al Príncipe de Gales y todas las Justicias, ciudades, Villas y lugares por donde pasare obedezcan y cumplan las órdenes…

"Desde la Villa de herrera del rrio pisuerga dio quenta a la Junta a Vuestra Magestad de como auia llegado alli el Principe de Gales y ayer mañana salio de aquel lugar a comer a Aguilar de Campo donde llego temprano y se entretubo antes de comer en…

A Spanish manuscript containing an abridged version of two Jacobean penal laws: "Act for the better discovery and repression of Popish Recusants" (3 Jac I, iv) and "An Act to prevent and avoid Dangers which grow by Popish Recusants" (3 Jac I, v), to…

This first nautical atlas in history served perfectly the purposes of invasion or plundering of the enemy coasts that the respective armadas of Philip II and Elizabeth I held for decades. It offered the navigator everything he needed to know about…

For the Spaniards, the long reign of Queen Elizabeth turned out to be a source of humiliation and outrages. The persecution of Catholics, the promotion of rebellion in the Netherlands, the detention of their treasure ships, the fall of the Armada,…