John C Branner Translator (1 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. A stated First Edition, being a Stanford University Publications, University Series volume, the second in their series, History, Economics and Political Science. Translated by John C. Branner of the original Spanish of Alexandre Herculano. Original softpaper wraps, lightly soiled and bearing only the slightest of signs of ex-library status, having been bound for library use in burgundy buckram cloth. Ink stamp at front cover, penciled note by a librarian at title page, else clean and bright. An extremely important social history of the establishment of the Spanish Inquisition in Portugal but that was, according to several historians, held back from the people of Portugal as was the general expulsion of Jews from Portugal and Spain. Bianca Ferreira's fine Master's Thesis mentions Theodor Adorno's trenchant question, "What does one do with the dead, is to practice what the past Jews considered to be the worst of all evils: to not remember them. In the face of the dead, the men release the despair of not having the capacity to remember themselves.? The present work and other definitive works "circulated only amongst elite scholars, it did not reach the Portuguese public of lesser education, nor were they adapted for the secondary schools and lyceums." 636 pp. including full notes, bibliography and index.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.…