When Miguel de Roxas, a young nobleman studying medicine in Padua, is summoned home to Spain to claim his inheritance, he is plunged into the tumultuous events resulting from the treachery of the Inquisition.
Cipriano Salcedo joins the Reformation movement in sixteenth-century Spain and fights against the political upheaval that is threatening his country and his life.
Columbus, the Inquisition, and the defeat of the Moors
Reston, James
2005
Recounts the events of 1492, during which King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella began the Spanish Inquisition in an attempt to consolidate their power on the Iberian peninsula and free themselves from the rule of the Vatican.
In 1264, Jean of Toulouse, a young French student and friar accused of heresy by the Inquisition, is sent to Oxford to spy on the scholarly monk, Roger Bacon, who is suspected of being a heretic for his advanced scientific ideas.
Heather travels through the magic mirror to Spain in 1492, a dangerous place for a Jewish girl, and returns home with a new appreciation for her ancestors and her faith.
Describes the activities of the Spanish Inquisition, which used questioning, torture, and execution to battle heresy both in Spain and in the New World.
At age eleven, Manuel has already fled with his family from Portugal to Spain, because the seventeenth-century persecution of Jews is less severe there, but passing as Christian becomes more and more difficult as the Inquisition continues.