The Phoenix and the Flame: Catalonia and the Counter Reformation

by Henry Kamen

Book Overview

An intimate look at a Catalan village reveals the wide-reaching effects of the Counter Reformation in Spain

It is commonly assumed that the Counter Reformation touched Spain only lightly, affecting the religious institutions but not the ordinary Spaniards. Henry Kamen now challenges this view by providing an intimate look at what life was like in one small but distinctive rural Spanish community from the mid-sixteenth to mid-seventeenth...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300054165
• ISBN13: 9780300054163
• Release Date: May 1993
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 528 Pages
• Weight: 2.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.5" x 9.5"