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CU on the Air: Exploring and learning from coexistence in Medieval Spain

Listen to this University of Colorado Podcast at http://cuontheair.blubrry.net/2018/06/29/exploring-and-learning-from-coexistence-in-medieval-spain/ The co-existence of Christians, Muslims and Jews in Medieval Spain creates a fascinating snapshot of that period in history – the good and not-so-good – and offers important insights on co-existence today. In this episode of CU on the Air, host Ken...

New Book: Creating Conversos

Roger Louis Martínez-Dávila, Ph.D.
[:en] Appearing in print in early 2018. Creating Conversos: The Carvajal–Santa María Family in Early Modern Spain Roger Louis Martínez-Dávila In Creating Conversos, Roger Louis Martínez-Dávila skillfully unravels the complex story of Jews who converted to Catholicism in Spain between the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries, migrated to colonial Mexico and Bolivia...

Doreen Carvajal’s engaging new book: The Forgetting River

Roger Louis Martínez-Dávila, Ph.D.
  Doreen Carvajal, a delightful friend and talented researcher-writer, just published a wonderful new book on the Carvajal family -- The Forgetting River: A Modern Tale of Survival, Identity, and the Inquisition. I had the pleasure of meeting Doreen several years ago as she was researching her family and looking into the...