by Henry Kamen · Circulo De Lectores, S.A. · tapa dura · ISBN 9788422669906
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«Felipe de España» is the biography of Philip II written by Henry Kamen, published by Círculo de Lectores in hardback (570 pages, in Spanish).
Henry Kamen analyses the life and reign of Philip II from a critical perspective, far from the clichés of collective memory. The journey includes the Battle of Lepanto, the Spanish Armada, the role of the Inquisition, the construction of El Escorial, and figures such as the Duke of Alba or Bartolomé de las Casas.
Translation by Patricia Escandón of the English original «Philip of Spain»; the edition includes 12 pages of photographic plates.
For readers of modern history, with an interest in the Hispanic monarchy, the sixteenth century, and the Spanish empire.
Henry Arthur Kamen is a British historian who has published extensively on Spain and the Spanish Empire. In particular, he has contributed to studies of the Spanish Inquisition: his The Spanish Inquisition, originally published in 1965, was revised and expanded in The Spanish Inquisition: A Historical Revision, published in 1998. In 2017, Kamen was indicted for possessing child pornography in Athens, Georgia.
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