by Henry Kamen · Siglo XXI de España Editores, S.A. · tapa dura · ISBN 9788432309571
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«Felipe de España» is the biography of Philip II written by Henry Kamen and published by Siglo XXI de España Editores in hardcover (364 pages, in Spanish).
Henry Kamen reconstructs the life of Philip II from his unpublished correspondence and European archives, and places him in the social, cultural and religious context of his time. The portrait combines the public and private dimensions of the monarch: the young man, the husband, the father, the Christian and the king, to illuminate his most controversial decisions.
Translation by Patricia Escandón and cover by Pedro Arjona. The English original was published in 1997 under the title Philip of Spain.
A work for readers of Spanish history, interested in the sixteenth century and in biographies of the Habsburgs.
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.
