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Jerónimo Román De La Higuera
Jerónimo Román de la Higuera (28 August 1538 – 14 November 1611) was a Spanish Jesuit archaeologist, historian and forger. Life Higuera was born in Toledo on 28 August 1538.Per , but , says merely that he "was born ... to Toledan parents in 1537 or 1538." His parents were María Álvarez Romano y Cuéllar and Alonso Fernández de la Higuera. He had a twin brother named Hernando, who died in in Peru in the 1590s. Higuera studied arts and theology from the , seemingly graduating with a doctorate in theology. He was ordained a priest and, in December 1562, entered the Jesuit order in Alcalá de Henares as a novice. He taught Latin grammar and the humanities in several Jesuit colleges in Madrid, Ocaña, Plasencia and Toledo and also served as a priest in Toledo and Murcia. In 1590, Higuera took the fourth vow and became a Jesuit ''profeso'' in Ocaña. In 1594, he proposed, on the basis of a document he had recently discovered, that the remains of a building recently excavated b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flavius Lucius Dexter
Flavius Lucius Dexter (b. 368 AD - d. 444 AD) was a figure of the late fourth century, reported as a historian, and a friend of St Jerome. He was the son of St Pacian, an imperial office-holder, and dedicatee of a work of Jerome, the ''De Viris Illustribus''. He was the supposed author of a chronicle, called the ''Omnimoda Historia'' or the ''Chronicle of Pseudo-Dexter''. It was in fact a forgery, one of a number of Román de la Higuera's (1538–1611), including the continuation attributed to Marcus Maximus, as scholars now agree. The suspect authorship has been widely known since the work of the Spanish bibliographer Nicolás Antonio, the ''Censura de historias fabulosas'', published in 1742. Doubts were already cast on these false chronicles before 1600, but controversy continued late into the eighteenth century. The Cistercian François de Bivar François () is a French masculine given name and surname, equivalent to the English name Francis. People with the given name ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
17th-century Spanish Jesuits
The 17th century lasted from January 1, 1601 ( MDCI), to December 31, 1700 ( MDCC). It falls into the early modern period of Europe and in that continent (whose impact on the world was increasing) was characterized by the Baroque cultural movement, the latter part of the Spanish Golden Age, the Dutch Golden Age, the French ''Grand Siècle'' dominated by Louis XIV, the Scientific Revolution, the world's first public company and megacorporation known as the Dutch East India Company, and according to some historians, the General Crisis. From the mid-17th century, European politics were increasingly dominated by the Kingdom of France of Louis XIV, where royal power was solidified domestically in the civil war of the Fronde. The semi-feudal territorial French nobility was weakened and subjugated to the power of an absolute monarchy through the reinvention of the Palace of Versailles from a hunting lodge to a gilded prison, in which a greatly expanded royal court could be more easily k ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
16th-century Spanish Jesuits
The 16th century begins with the Julian year 1501 ( MDI) and ends with either the Julian or the Gregorian year 1600 ( MDC) (depending on the reckoning used; the Gregorian calendar introduced a lapse of 10 days in October 1582). The 16th century is regarded by historians as the century which saw the rise of Western civilization and the Islamic gunpowder empires. The Renaissance in Italy and Europe saw the emergence of important artists, authors and scientists, and led to the foundation of important subjects which include accounting and political science. Copernicus proposed the heliocentric universe, which was met with strong resistance, and Tycho Brahe refuted the theory of celestial spheres through observational measurement of the 1572 appearance of a Milky Way supernova. These events directly challenged the long-held notion of an immutable universe supported by Ptolemy and Aristotle, and led to major revolutions in astronomy and science. Galileo Galilei became a ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
