Zusammenfassung On August 4! 1578! in an ill-conceived attempt to wrest Morocco back from the hands of the infidel Moors! King Sebastian of Portugal led his troops to slaughter and was himself slain. Sixteen years later! King Sebastian rose again. The author recalls this conspiracy! marked both by scheming and absurdity! and the legal inquest that followed.

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Ruth MacKay works as an editor and writer at Stanford University, where she is also a visiting scholar. Her previous books are The Limits of Royal Authority: Resistance and Obedience in Seventeenth-Century Castile and "Lazy, Improvident People": Myth and Reality in the Writing of Spanish History.

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On August 4, 1578, in an ill-conceived attempt to wrest Morocco back from the hands of the infidel Moors, King Sebastian of Portugal led his troops to slaughter and was himself slain. Sixteen years later, King Sebastian rose again. The author recalls this conspiracy, marked both by scheming and absurdity, and the legal inquest that followed.