The name of the de la Cerda family frequently resonated in accounts of the struggle for power in late medieval Castile and continued to play a prominent role in Spanish politics well into the Modern Age; The famous princess of Éboli was called Ana de Mendoza de la Cerda y de Silva y Álvarez de Toled
The context. The cantonalist phenomenon falls within the framework of the First Spanish Republic, being one of the most extreme manifestations of that period since it involved an explosion of long-silent popular desires. After the abdication of Amadeo I, the Cortes, united Congress and Senate in a
Surely you have or have had a piggy bank in the shape of a pig in which you kept your savings, money you received from your parents or grandparents. Like so many things, everything has its explanation, and piggy banks do too. During the Middle Ages, in the Christian world, a family that had a pig i
Who has not seen in his life this famous figure, a humanoid bearded goat with wings, a pair of breasts and a torch in the middle of his two large horns? Throughout Western occult history, the name of the mysterious Baphomet it is invoked in every age and at different times in history. Although ther