In the thirteenth century, profound changes in Spanish society drove the invention of fresh poetic forms by the new clerical class. The term mester de [...]

What is generally referred to as modern drama was an international development or movement centred in Europe and North America, a movement directed against many [...]

Written by the Mercedarian friar Martín de Murúa, the Historia general del Piru (1616) is one of only three extant illustrated manuscripts on the history [...]