Good Faith and Truthful Ignorance

preview-18
  • Good Faith and Truthful Ignorance Book Detail

  • Author : Alexandra Parma Cook
  • Release Date : 1991
  • Publisher : Duke University Press
  • Genre : History
  • Pages : 228
  • ISBN 13 : 9780822312222
  • File Size : 85,85 MB

Good Faith and Truthful Ignorance by Alexandra Parma Cook PDF Summary

Book Description: Good Faith and Truthful Ignorance uncovers from history the fascinating and strange story of Spanish explorer Francisco Noguerol de Ulloa. in 1556, accompanied by his second wife, Francisco returned to his home in Spain after a profitable twenty-year sojourn in the new world of Peru. However, unlike most other rich conquistadores who returned to the land of their birth, Francisco was not allowed to settle into a life of leisure. Instead, he was charged with bigamy and illegal shipment of silver, was arrested and imprisoned. Francisco's first wife (thought long dead) had filed suit in Spain against her renegade husband. So begins the labyrinthine legal tale and engrossing drama of an explorer and his two wives, skillfully reconstructed through the expert and original archival research of Alexandra Parma Cook and Noble David Cook. Drawing on the remarkable records from the trial, the narrative of Francisco's adventures provides a window into daily life in sixteenth-century Spain, as well as the mentalité and experience of conquest and settlement of the New World. Told from the point of view of the conquerors, Francisco's story reveals not only the lives of the middle class and minor nobility but also much about those at the lower rungs of the social order and relations between the sexes. In the tradition of Carlo Ginzberg's The Cheese and the Worms and Natalie Zemon Davis' The Return of Martin Guerre, Good Faith and Truthful Ignorance illuminates an historical period--the world of sixteenth-century Spain and Peru--through the wonderful and unusual story of one man and his two wives.

Disclaimer: www.yourbookbest.com does not own Good Faith and Truthful Ignorance books pdf, neither created or scanned. We just provide the link that is already available on the internet, public domain and in Google Drive. If any way it violates the law or has any issues, then kindly mail us via contact us page to request the removal of the link.

Good Faith and Truthful Ignorance

Good Faith and Truthful Ignorance

File Size : 44,44 MB
Total View : 7032 Views
DOWNLOAD

Good Faith and Truthful Ignorance uncovers from history the fascinating and strange story of Spanish explorer Francisco Noguerol de Ulloa. in 1556, accompanied

The Discovery and Conquest of Peru

The Discovery and Conquest of Peru

File Size : 62,62 MB
Total View : 4588 Views
DOWNLOAD

Dazzled by the sight of the vast treasure of gold and silver being unloaded at Seville’s docks in 1537, a teenaged Pedro de Cieza de León vowed to join the S

Reader's Guide to Military History

Reader's Guide to Military History

File Size : 35,35 MB
Total View : 5907 Views
DOWNLOAD

This book contains some 600 entries on a range of topics from ancient Chinese warfare to late 20th-century intervention operations. Designed for a wide variety

The Plague Files

The Plague Files

File Size : 15,15 MB
Total View : 3819 Views
DOWNLOAD

In the first half of the 1580s, Seville, Spain, confronted a series of potentially devastating crises. In three years, the city faced a brush with deadly contag