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Author:

Ruiz, Teofilo F., 1943-

Title:

The other 1492 [DVD] : Ferdinand, Isabella, and the making of an empire / Teofilo F. Ruiz ; the Teaching Company.

Format:

[DVD] :

Publisher:

Teaching Co.,

Copyright Date:

c2002

Description:

2 videodiscs (ca. 360 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (ii, 59 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.)

Subject:

Spain--History--Ferdinand and Isabella, 1479-1516.
Spain--Social conditions--To 1800.
Europe--History--1492-1517.
America--Spanish.--Spanish.

Other Authors:

Teaching Company.

Notes:

Instructed by Teofilo F. Ruiz.

Contents:

disc one. lecture 1. Europe and the New World in 1492 ; lecture 2. Reconquest, pilgrimage, crusade, repopulation ; lecture 3. The transformation of values ; lecture 4. An age of crisis ; lecture 5. Isabella and Ferdinand : an age of reform ; lecture 6. Iberian culture in the fifteenth century -- disc 2. lecture 7. The conquest of Granada : Muslim life in Iberia ; lecture 8. The edict of expulsion : Jewish life in Iberia ; lecture 9. Jews, Conversos, and the Inquisition ; lecture 10. The world of Christopher Columbus ; lecture 11. The shock of the new ; lecture 12. Spain and its empire : the aftermath of 1492.

Summary:

Teofilo F. Ruiz gives a series of lectures on the history of the reign of Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain, who united the country, took power from the Moors, gave aid to Columbus, ordered the expulsion or conversion of Jews and Moors, and built the framework for modern Spain.

Series:

Great courses

ISBN:

9781565857254
1565857259

OCLC:

(OCoLC)54942079

Locations:

KJPF566 -- Fort Madison Public Library (Fort Madison)

GDPF771 -- Urbandale Public Library (Urbandale)