Live Webcast/Book Launch: <i>Dogs of God: Columbus, the Inquisition, and the Defeat of the Moors</i>
with James B. Reston, Jr., author and Woodrow Wilson Center Senior Scholar and Commentator Everette E. Larson head of the Hispanic Reading Room, Library of Congress. Video of this event is available now.
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Dogs of God: Columbus, the Inquisition, and the Defeat of the Moors
October 11, 2005
Dogs of God is Woodrow Wilson Center Senior Scholar James B. Reston's final volume in a quartet of books that focuses on politics and religion between the high Middle Ages and the Seventeenth Century. This series began with a life of Galileo and includes a study of how Europeans prepared for and celebrated the last Apocalypse in 1000 A.D. and a study of Richard the Lionheart and Saladin in the Third Crusade. This latest volume examines a series of events within the court of Ferdinand and Isabella in Spain including the Inquisition, the expulsions of the Moors and the Jews from Spain, and the sponsorship of Columbus's voyage to the New World in 1492.
Themes in all four books involve conflicts between high political and religious leaders. In choosing a topic Reston looks for important events, bold characters, and ultimately a good storyline. He attempts to give flesh, blood, and emotion to his main actors and to show how the events of their day have relevance for today's problems and concerns.
The commentator, Dr. Everette Larson, Head of the Hispanic Reading Room at the Library of Congress, pointed out a few places where he might have described a group differently or drawn an interpretation with alternative emphasis, but he had high praise in general for the book, its scholarship, and its fluid and accessible style.
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