The Buried Mirror (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Carlos Fuentes
- First Published: 1992
- Type of Work: Social history
- Time of Work: The 1400’s to 1992
- Setting: Spain and Latin America
- Genres: Nonfiction, History
- Subjects: Culture, Art or artists, Christianity, Intermarriage, Latin America or Latin Americans, Sacrifice, Spain or Spanish people, Religious life, Paganism, Monarchy, Persecution
- Locales: Spain, Latin America
Spain had been in disarray for some decades before 1492, the year in which Italian explorer Christopher Columbus persuaded King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella to finance his efforts to find a route to India and the Spice Islands that did not necessitate a long, dangerous overland trip. The route around the Cape of Good Hope was not conquered by Vasco da Gama until 1498. Fuentes calls 1492 a watershed year for Spain, and few would quibble with that contention.
The Iberian peninsula, emerging from the Middle Ages, had been hard hit by the Black Death of 1350. Spain had a population...
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