As the plague raged, no individual group of peoples were immune; it affected the serfs and lords, as well as the priests and friars. ... According to one particular scholar of Jewish history, this defining moment in time was undoubtedly a turning point in Christian/Jewish relations (Aberth 141). ...
The period Pané covers is short span, from 1494 to 1498; it is restricted to a defined area, the island of Hispaniola - which is presently divided in the Dominican Republic and Haiti - and focuses on recording the lives and beliefs of the TaÃno people. ... Fray Pané's accounts were mainly of the religious traditions and customs of the TaÃno people, as a friar commissioned not only to make critical observations about the religion he was studying, moreover, he was to implant the Christianity and convert as many of the natives as he could. ...
Furthermore, the modern appropriation maintains the ingenious Shakespearean language and the sense of tragedy that defines "Romeo and Juliet." ... From Tybalt's vest depicting the Virgin Mary to Friar Lawrence's tattoo of the crucifix and Juliet's crucifix necklace. ...
