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Spain – Brewminate: We're Never Far From Where We Were https://brewminate.com Tue, 13 Oct 2026 15:02:39 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 https://brewminate.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/cropped-BrewBLogo01-32x32.jpg Spain – Brewminate: We're Never Far From Where We Were https://brewminate.com 32 32 Terror in the King’s Name: The Sack of Mechelen in 1572 https://brewminate.com/sack-mechelen-1572/ Tue, 13 Oct 2026 15:02:32 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=279631 In 1572, the duke of Alba permitted the sack of Mechelen to intimidate other cities. Survivors sought relief

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]]> Queer Literature in Francoist Spain: Lorca and the Struggle against Erasure https://brewminate.com/queer-literature-spain-lorca-literary-criticism/ Thu, 01 Oct 2026 01:49:11 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=204814 Debates over Lorca’s sexuality helped reshape Spanish literary criticism. Queer readings challenged inherited exclusions and explored how gay

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]]> A King Dethroned in Effigy: Juan Pacheco and the Farce of Ávila in 1465 https://brewminate.com/farce-of-avila-juan-pacheco-1465/ Tue, 29 Sep 2026 14:46:55 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=279109 In 1465, Juan Pacheco and his allies stripped Henry IV’s effigy of royal authority and proclaimed Alfonso king.

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]]> The Inquisition at Maní: Diego de Landa and the Search for Secret Maya Religion, 1562 https://brewminate.com/inquisition-mani-maya-religion-1562/ Wed, 26 Aug 2026 14:44:12 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=276894 At Maní in 1562, Franciscan authorities used testimony, coercion, and local knowledge to expose Maya religious practices hidden

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]]> Sword of Orthodoxy: The Spanish Army and the Early Modern Enforcement of Catholic Uniformity https://brewminate.com/spanish-army-enforcement-catholic-orthodoxy-16th-17th-centuries/ Fri, 27 Feb 2026 15:01:00 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=270550 In sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spain, the army enforced Catholic orthodoxy, revealing how confessional unity became inseparable from imperial

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]]> Francisco Franco and National Catholicism: When Faith became State Ideology https://brewminate.com/francisco-franco-and-national-catholicism-when-faith-became-state-ideology/ Fri, 20 Feb 2026 15:00:00 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=270314 Francisco Franco’s Spain demonstrates how religion can be transformed from spiritual tradition into instrument of sovereign authority. By

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]]> Engineered Extraction: The Encomienda System and Institutional Exploitation in the Spanish Empire https://brewminate.com/engineered-extraction-the-encomienda-system-and-institutional-exploitation-in-the-spanish-empire/ Wed, 18 Feb 2026 16:04:18 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=270201 The encomienda offers a historical example of how institutions claiming neutrality or benefit can embed exploitative feedback loops

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]]> Testerian Catechism and Egerton Codex: Images as Tools of Conversion in Colonial New Spain https://brewminate.com/testerian-catechism-and-egerton-codex-images-as-tools-of-conversion-in-colonial-new-spain/ Wed, 17 Jan 2024 16:03:46 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=214028 Visual teaching tools used by missionaries for converting the Indigenous population of Central Mexico to Christianity. Introduction The

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]]> A Mosaic of Cultural Identities on the Northwest Iberian Peninsula 5,000 Years Ago https://brewminate.com/a-mosaic-of-cultural-identities-on-the-northwest-iberian-peninsula-5000-years-ago/ Wed, 13 Dec 2023 15:46:47 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=205051 Possible ideological and social changes that led to a new chronological-cultural stage: the Early Bronze Age. Abstract The

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]]> Too Many with Too Much: The Spanish Price Revolution from the 15th to 17th Centuries https://brewminate.com/too-many-with-too-much-the-spanish-price-revolution-from-the-15th-to-17th-centuries/ Tue, 15 Nov 2022 15:53:33 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=187890 Too many people with too much money chased too few goods. Introduction The Price Revolution, sometimes known as the Spanish

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