THE LEAD BOOKS OF GRANADA

Hailed as early Christian texts as important as the Dead Sea Scrolls, yet condemned by the Vatican as Islamic heresies, the Lead boo ks of Granada, written on discs of lead and unearthed on a Granadan hillside, weave a mysterious tale of duplicity and daring set in the religious crucible of sixteenth-century Spain. This book evaluates the cultural status and importance of these polyvalent, ambi guous artefacts which embody many of the dualities and paradoxes inherent in the racial and religious dilemmas of Early Modern Spain . Using ...[Read more]