I am a huge fancier of historical novels, so when I began Passion Blue, set in late fifteenth century Italy, I expected to like it. (victoriastrauss.com)
From the late fifteenth century the theologians of the Church began to reflect upon the «new things» in the social order of their times, in this case the emergence of the modern business economy — trade, commerce, credit, banking and industry. (faith.org.uk)
The late fifteenth century had seen the effective union of the Christian kingdoms of Aragon and Castile, through the marriage of Ferdinand and Isabella, and the culmination of the reconquista, with the capture of the Islamic kingdom of Granada (1492). (faith.org.uk)