These goals could include securing a desired marital alliance, or shoring up a relationship in crisis. Abductions could ...

Abducting a woman was in keeping with the ancient practice of raptio . This Latin word shares its etymology with the English word“rape”, but originally meant kidnapping a woman or women ...

Abducting a woman was in keeping with the ancient practice of raptio. This Latin word shares its etymology with the English word “rape”, but originally meant kidnapping a woman or women ...

Abducting a woman was in keeping with the ancient practice of raptio. This Latin word shares its etymology with the English word “rape”, but originally meant kidnapping a woman or women, either for ...

Queen Juana la Loca confined at Tordesillas with her daughter, Catalina, as depicted by Francisco Pradilla y Ortiz. Museo del Prado ...