Don Juan and Charles V
The story begins with the abdication of Charles V of Spain, whose vast and scattered territories had cursed his country with a foreign policy in nearly every corner of Europe. His Austrian d... Read allThe story begins with the abdication of Charles V of Spain, whose vast and scattered territories had cursed his country with a foreign policy in nearly every corner of Europe. His Austrian dominions formed the bulwark which restrained the Moslem flood from deluging Eastern Europe... Read allThe story begins with the abdication of Charles V of Spain, whose vast and scattered territories had cursed his country with a foreign policy in nearly every corner of Europe. His Austrian dominions formed the bulwark which restrained the Moslem flood from deluging Eastern Europe, his galleys kept the Mediterranean a Christian sea, Flanders gave him a frontier regarde... Read all