Non Sufficit Orbis

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A copyist in the 1590s Archive of Simancas dreams of escaping to Peru

Sometime before 1608, a Spanish poet by the name of Juan de Arjona wrote an ode to the pig (see source 1). It survives in an unlikely...

On 25 April, 1566, a field justice of the Spanish city of Coria, Extremadura went before a scribe with an alarming story - "a monstrous...

"This is a transcript of a letter that fell from heaven to earth in which God wrote from his heart, and must be believed by all, which...

Men ran the Council of the Indies, so says every book and almost every document we know about it. Little wonder; during the Habsburg era...

Welcome to Non Sufficit Orbis - a new blog about the history of the Atlantic world and beyond. My name is Adrian Masters. I'm a graduate...