Kamen, Henry Arthur Francis

Henry Kamen was until recently professor of the Higher Council for Scientific Research, Spain, and is Visiting Professor in the University of ChicagoAs programme in Barcelona. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. A leading authority on Spanish history, he is author of over twenty studies in the field, some of them best-sellers that have been translated into several languages. Recent well-known works by him include "The Spanish Inquisition (Yale University Press, 1999)," "Philip of Spain (Yale University Press, 1998), "and "Spain""As Road to Empire (Allen Lane, 2002)."