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Humanistas, helenistas y hebraístas en la Europa de Carlos V

El titulo de la presente monografía tiene como finalidad recoger los diversos aspectos que, desde el marco amplio del Humanismo cristiano, queríamos tener presentes de manera evocadora. Nuestra atención es poner de relieve dos aspectos que considerábamos particularmente significativos: las lenguas clásicas y su importancia ...

Women in Classical Antiquity

from birth to death

An introduction to women and gender in the classical world that draws on the most recent research in the field. 'Women in Classical Antiquity' focuses on the important objects, events and concepts that combine to form a clear understanding of ancient Greek and Roman women ...

Fifty maps

and the stories they tell

From medieval maps to digital cartograms, this book features highlights from the Bodleian Library's extraordinary map collection together with rare artefacts and some stunning examples from twenty-first-century map-makers. Each map is accompanied by a narrative revealing the story behind how it came to be ...

Queen, mother, and stateswoman

Mariana of Austria and the government of Spain

When Philip IV of Spain died in 1665, his heir, Carlos II, was three years old. In addition to this looming dynastic crisis, decades of enormous military commitments had left Spain a virtually bankrupt state with vulnerable frontiers and a depleted army. In Silvia Z ...

Life in Stalin's Soviet Union

Life in Stalin's Soviet Union is a collaborative work in which some of the leading scholars in the field shed light on various aspects of daily life for Soviet citizens. Split into three parts which focus on 'Food, Health and Leisure', the 'Lived Experience ...

Spain at war

society, culture, and mobilization, 1936-44

Spain's principal and most devastating war during the 20th century was, unusually for most of Europe, an internal conflict. During the Spanish Civil War of 1936 to 1939 two competing armies - the insurgent and counterrevolutionary Nationalist Army and the Republican Popular Army - engaged in ...

A short history of the Mughal Empire

The Mughal Empire dominated India politically, culturally, socially, economically and environmentally, from its foundation by Babur, a Central Asian adventurer, in 1526 to the final trial and exile of the last emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar at the hands of the British in 1858. Throughout the ...

A short history of the Weimar Republic

It is impossible to understand the history of modern Europe without some knowledge of the Weimar Republic. The brief fourteen-year period of democracy between the Treaty of Versailles and the advent of the Third Reich was marked by unstable government, economic crisis and hyperinflation and ...

A short history of the Phoenicians

The Phoenicians present a tantalizing face to the ancient historian. Latin sources suggest they once had an extensive literature of history, law, philosophy and religion; but all now is lost. Offering new insights based on recent archaeological discoveries in their heartland of modern-day Lebanon, Mark ...

A history of the Tajiks

iranians of the East

In this comprehensive and up to date history, from prehistoric proto-Indo-Iranian times to the post-Soviet period, Richard Foltz traces the complex linguistic, cultural and political history of the Tajiks, a Persian-speaking Iranian ethnic group from the modern-day Central Asian states of Tajikistan, Afghanistan, and Uzbekistan ...

A short history of Ancient Greece

Thomas Cromwell

Thomas Cromwell is one of the most famous - or notorious - figures in English history. Born in obscurity in Putney, he became a fixer for Cardinal Wolsey in the 1520s. After Wolsey's fall, Henry VIII promoted him to a series of ever greater offices, and ...

Red flags

why Xi's China is in jeopardy

A trusted economic commentator provides a penetrating account of the threats to China's continued economic rise Under President Xi Jinping, China has become a large and confident power both at home and abroad, but the country also faces serious challenges. In this critical take ...

A short history of Europe

from Pericles to Putin

The first short narrative history of the continent, from the author of the bestselling A Short History of England Europe is an astonishingly successful place. In this dazzling new history, bestselling author Simon Jenkins grippingly tells the story of its evolution from warring peoples to ...

Fluxes, fevers, and fighting men

war and disease in Ancien Régime Europe 1648-1789

The proportion of wartime soldiers dying of disease as against combat injury, ran at about 70-75 percent in armies campaigning in Europe in the century and a half (1648-1789) between the end of the Thirty Years War and the French Revolution. During this time, field ...

The causes of war

Volume 2: 1000 CE to 1400 CE

This is the second volume of a projected five-volume series charting the causes of war from 3000 BCE to the present day, written by a leading international lawyer, and using as its principal materials the documentary history of international law, largely in the form of ...

Iran after the Mongols

Following the devastating Mongol conquest of Baghdad in 1258, the domination of the Abbasids declined leading to successor polities, chiefly among them the Ilkhanate in Greater Iran, Iraq and the Caucasus. Iranian cultural identities were reinstated within the lands that make up today's Iran ...

Alfonso X of Castile-León

royal patronage, self-promotion and manuscripts in Thirteenth-Century Spain

This book analyses text, image and manuscript layout to deepen our understanding of the different ways in which Alfonso is presented as a learned king in the manuscripts he commissioned, and reassesses the number of manuscripts copied for him.

Writing the history of Nationalism

What is nationalism and how can we study it from a historical perspective? Writing the History of Nationalism answers this question by examining eleven historical approaches to nationalism studies in theory and practice. An impressive cast of contributors cover the history of nationalism from a ...

La vida inquieta

conflictos sociales en la Edad Moderna

Recurriendo a una gran variedad de fuentes, no solo las de tipo judi­cial como pudiera tal vez anticiparse, y combinando métodos cualitativos y estadísticos esta obra colectiva se consagra al análisis y explicación de la conflictividad social en sus expresiones y procedimientos de resolución ...