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La guitarra rasgueada en España durante el siglo XVII

Esta obra aborda el estudio de los sistemas de notación abreviada de acordes que se utilizaron en la Península Ibérica y de sus fuentes conservadas. El resultado es no sólo un análisis pormenorizado de los sistemas de notación abreviada de acordes y sus características, sino ...

Social policy in the European Union

Social policy has become an increasingly prominent component of the European Union's policy-making responsibilities. Today, for example, a highly developed body of law regulates equal treatment in social security and co-ordinates national security schemes; national health services have opened up to patients and service ...

La creación de Ciudadanos

un largo camino

El 9 de julio de 2006 nacía en Barcelona Ciutadans, partido de la Ciudadanía (C's). Su origen, la proyección pública de sus creadores y el fulgurante éxito electoral que consiguió en la primera cita electoral han dejado un relato periodístico sobre su aparición de ...

Las edades de los sagrado

los milagros de Ntra. Sra. de Guadalupe y sus reescrituras (siglos XV-XVII)

En una pequeña pero reveladora parte de las relaciones de los milagros del santuario de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe (relatos de un manuscrito de hacia 1500, de una edición impresa del XVI y de otra del XVII) se puede seguir el proceso de evolución de ...

The theatre of infamy

Autos de Fe in Peru. Inquisition trial and sentencing records, 1639-1749

Sentencing records (relaciones) of auto-de-fe trials served to alert citizens to the crimes committed against the Church and state by individuals who might otherwise have remained accidental to history; likewise they served as a warning to deter the populace against ill conduct. The relaciones bring ...

The Cambridge World History

Vol.II: A world with agriculture, 12.000 BCE - 500 CE

The development of agriculture has often been described as the most important change in all of human history. Volume 2 of the Cambridge World History series explores the origins and impact of agriculture and agricultural communities, and also discusses issues associated with pastoralism and hunter-fisher-gatherer ...

The Cambridge World History

Vol.I: Introducing world history, to 10.000 BCE

Volume 1 of the Cambridge World History is an introduction to both the discipline of world history and the earliest phases of world history up to 10,000 BCE. In Part I leading scholars outline the approaches, methods, and themes that have shaped and defined ...

Rome across time and space

cultural transmission and the exchange of ideas, c. 500 - 1400

Medieval Rome was uniquely important, both as a physical city and as an idea with immense cultural capital, encapsulating the legacy of the ancient Empire, the glorious world of the martyrs and the triumph of Christian faith. Rome across Time and Space explores these twin ...

Holy War, martyrdom, and terror

christianity, violence, and the West

Holy War, Martyrdom, and Terror examines the ways that Christian theology has shaped centuries of conflict from the Jewish-Roman War of late antiquity through the First Crusade, the French Revolution, and up to the Iraq War. By isolating one factor among the many forces that ...

Pablo Serrano

una nueva figuración y un nuevo humanismo

La presente monografía analiza la obra escultórica de Pablo Serrano (Crivillén, Teruel, 1908 - Madrid, 1985) a partir de sus cartas y los escritos sobre su obra con el objetivo de dar a conocer las ideas que el artista expresó acerca del arte de su tiempo ...

En sintonía con Santa Teresa

Juan de Palafox y los Carmelitas Descalzos: doce estudios

«Más carmelita que si hubiera profesado su instituto» se puede leer en las páginas de este libro que quiere conmemorar el V Centenario del nacimiento de Santa Teresa, en relación con uno de sus más fervientes enamorados: don Juan de Palafox. La frase se publicó ...

Los exiliados del rey de España

Refugiados desde Europa, Asia, África y América, decenas de miles de exiliados encontraron en la Monarquía Hispánica su tierra de promisión entre los siglos XVI y XVIII. Príncipes destronados, soldados que querían seguir su combate, comerciantes que buscaban ampliar sus horizontes, campesinos y esclavos que ...

La peregrinación a Santiago de Diego de Guzmán

diario inédito de 1610

Despues de 400 años inédito, ve la luz el diario manuscrito del peregrino Diego de Guzmán, que visitó Santiago de Compostela en el otoño de 1610. Un documento único descubierto en la Real Academia de la Historia por el investigador de la Universidad de Santiago ...

Urban geography

a critical introduction

Urban Geography a comprehensive introduction to a variety of issues relating to contemporary urban geography, including patterns and processes of urbanization, urban development, urban planning, and life experiences in modern cities. * Reveals both the diversity of ordinary urban geographies and the networks, flows and relations ...

The Italian Renaissance State

This magisterial study proposes a revised and innovative view of the political history of Renaissance Italy. Drawing on comparative examples from across the peninsula and the kingdoms of Sicily, Sardinia and Corsica, an international team of leading scholars highlights the complexity and variety of the ...

¿Por qué Venecia?

Tres mitos sobre Venecia se han impuesto a lo largo de la historia: uno político, recurrente en los siglos XVI y XVII, que tenía a la ciudad por ejemplo de armonía y libertad; otro hedonista, más propio del siglo XVIII, que la tenía por paraíso ...

Imperial Portugal in the Age of Atlantic Revolutions

the luso-brazilian world, c. 1770 - 1850

As the British, French and Spanish Atlantic empires were torn apart in the Age of Revolutions, Portugal steadily pursued reforms to tie its American, African and European territories more closely together. Eventually, after a period of revival and prosperity, the Luso-Brazilian world also succumbed to ...

Contract Law

Great Debates in Law is an evolving series offering engaging and thoughtful introductions to the more advanced concepts, written by authors who are amongst the foremost thinkers in their field. They are designed to provide a cutting edge for students who are looking to gain ...

Business cycle economics

understanding recessions and depressions from boom to bust

Despite more than two centuries of debate, a definitive explanation of the causes of economic cycles still does not exist. Economists, politicians, and policymakers have argued many well-known theories as to why these peaks and slumps occur, and cyclical recessions and depressions continue in spite ...

The trading playbook

two rule-based plans for day trading and swing trading

Traders have a tendency to over-complicate. Many search for the latest new indicator that will give them an edge, or a new trading strategy to deliver bigger wins. The message of The Trading Playbook is to forget all of this and concentrate on three solid ...