Comuneros

Between 1520 and 1522 Castile was on fire. Carlos I and his newly inaugurated imperial power was challenged by a popular army led by heroic names such as Juan de Padilla, Juan Bravo and Francisco Maldonado... and the mighty roar of a woman, María Pacheco, who entrenched herself in the fortress de Toledo led the resistance in the throes of the revolution. These pages will lead the reader into the bowels of a time as brief as it is decisive for understanding the future not only of Castile, but of Spain. From the death of Isabel la Católica and her problematic succession to the imprisonment of Juana la Loca and the arrival of a foreign adolescent king; from the Cortes of Santiago de Compostela to the battle of Villalar. Our history is not only composed of illustrious characters. Also the life of the common, their fortunes and misadventures will be put on the board. What did the community movement have to be able to bring together the church, the urban patriciate, the common people and some nobles? What force made them rise up against the sacred figure of the king? Why does the singular feminine gender have so much weight in this story? Passion, epic, love, intrigue, betrayals and twists of fate fill the first modern revolutionary experiment in Spain and Europe. A time that filled the collective imagination with legends and myths, ghosts and shadows and that inspired writers, musicians and filmmakers. A story of light and fire. A cry in the middle of the plain in dark times. If the pine forests burned... we still have the holm oak!