My third great grandfather was the one who moved to America from Germany on my grandma’s side. If he did not feel like America was the place he should continue in life I most definetly would be an entirely different person, in all likelihood living in a different county. My great grandfather, Gottlob, did the … Read more
Although The Poem of The Cid was written during the Spanish crusades, The Cid could not be further from the heroic crusader ideal, as established, for example, in The Song of Roland. Roland was so passionate, so convinced of the rightness of his beliefs that he was willing to demonstrate all of his heroic qualities … Read more
When analysing Spain, this century is most notorious with the countries establishment as a superior nation. Yet it’s debate whether this truly occurred, as historians like JH Elliot have stated “Spanish society drove itself forward” others disagree, like Solsten, speculating that “The sixteenth century was a period of unremitting decline”. This 100-year time span presents … Read more
Spain is a country in Europe that experienced the horrific effects of a civil war. The war lasted for years, with thousands of lives lost and it took Spain decades to recover from the consequences of these events that took place during the middle of the 20th century. In the early 1930s, a miniscule republic … Read more