cultural resources in henrik ibsen's early environment - Ibsen.net

a fortified city called Santa Fe in the vicinity of Granada. Famine, accidents of war and
the doubt of support from Africa, ultimately persuaded the Moors to surrender. The city
delivered itself to the Christian coalition, but the Moors were to keep their religion
inviolate, and be governed according to their own laws. Thereupon Ferdinand and
Isabella moved (their army) into the capital city, and the dominion of this people (i.e., the
Moors) in Spain came to an end completely. The provisions, as they had understood
them, were not kept by the treacherous Ferdinand. He tried to bring them to Christianity
through violence and coercion; they rebelled, but Ferdinand went against them himself
and forced them into submission. In return for payment they received permission to cross
over to Africa; if they returned they would die. In Aragon the nobility opposed itself to
this procedure against so many of its inhabitants, some of whom were important people,
so Ferdinand had to allow them to remain there. Ferdinand dealt with the Jews in the
same way as with the Moors, where after hard persecution a great many were compelled
to leave the country. This zeal for the purity of the faith gained Ferdinand, so villainous
and treacherous (as) he in fact was, the name of the Catholic.
were trimmed by the hand of philosophy, its trunk was still giving tragic evidence of how far religious
persecution can go.”
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