Secularisation

This study examines the secular direction of the process of change which took place within the West European Sephardi Diaspora in the 17th Century by referring to two separate historical and social meanings which the term "secularisation" can have within Jewish society. One mean…

This thesis is an exploration of the motives, mentalities and collective identities which lay behind acts of popular anticlerical violence and iconoclasm during the pre-war Spanish Second Republic (1931-1936) and the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). The five year period following …