Manners, customs, and dress during the Middle Ages and during the Renaissance period (1870)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884 · London : Bickers and Son · leaf 326
COMMERCE. 264 rising to wealth under the stigma of shame and infamy, and the immense gains which they realised hy means of usury reconciled them to, and consoled them for, the ill-treatment to which they were subjected. At a very early period, and especially when the Jews had been absolutely… … Fig. 199. — Discovery of America, 12th of May, 1492. — Columbus erects the Cross and baptizes the Isle of Guanahani (now Cat Island, one of the Bahamas) by the Christian Name of St. Salvador. — From a Stamp engraved on Copper by Th. de Bry, in the Collection of " Grands Voyages," in folio, 1590.…
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