![]() | For the Common Good On June 7, 1640, the viceroy of Catalonia was stabbed to death on a Barcelona beach. By Christmas, several more royal officials of the Spanish principality had been assassinated. In the wake of these and other violent acts committed by the "people"--a... Luis Corteguera is Associate Professor of History at the University of Kansas. |
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