Librería Samer Atenea
Kálamo Books
Librería Elías (Asturias)
Librería Kolima (Madrid)
Librería Proteo (Málaga)
In the spring of 1467, the peasants, fishermen, merchants, and parish clergy of the Kingdom of Galicia did something no comparable population in late medieval Europe ever achieved: they built a government of their own, conducted its business in their own language, and used it to tear down, stone by stone, the fortresses of the men who had terrorized them for a century. Fortress and Fury traces the full arc of the Irmandiño Wars - from the plague-scarred countryside and the corrupted feudal contracts that bred a century of grievance, through the failed 1431 rising that first proved a peasant army could take a lord’s castle, to the extraordinary Santa Irmandade of 1467-1469: a self-governing brotherhood that raised eighty thousand men, demolished well over a hundred strongholds, and ruled an entire kingdom in the king’s own name while defying the aristocracy that claimed to serve him. Drawing on sixty-year-old sworn testimony from the survivors themselves, this is the story of how a fortress-building tyranny was answered with fire, siege, and a revolutionary legal fiction - and of the war the rebels lost, but the peace, remarkably, they won.
