Religious Authority in the Spanish Renaissance

This in-depth study of religious tensions in early modern Spain offers a new and enlightening perspective on the era of the Inquisition.   Traditionally, the Spanish Renaissance of the 15th and 16th centuries has been framed as an epic battle of opposites. The followers of Erasmus were in constant discord with conservative Catholics while the humanists were diametrically opposed to the scholastics. Historian Lu Ann Homza rejects this simplistic view. In Religious Authority in the Spanish Re