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En los umbrales de España

la incorporación del reino de Navarra a la Monarquía Hispana. XXXVIII Semana de Estudios Medievales, 18-22 de Julio de 2011, Estella

Actas de la trigésimo octava edición de la Semana de Estudios Medievales de Estella que, en esta ocasión, sirvieron como foro de reflexión previo a las conmemoraciones en torno a la batalla de las «Navas de Tolosa». Si bien la orientación general elegida fue el ...

Obra escogida

Women and aristocratic culture in the Carolingian World

Despite the wealth of scholarship in recent decades on medieval women, we still know much less about the experiences of women in the early Middle Ages than we do about those in later centuries. In Women and Aristocratic Culture in the Carolingian World, Valerie L ...

The making of a Christian Empire

Lactantius and Rome

The work of the Christian scholar Lactantius provides an ideal lens through which to study how Rome became a Christian empire. Elizabeth DePalma Digeser shows how Lactantius' Divine Institutes-seditious in its time-responded to the emperor Diocletian's persecution and then became an important influence on ...

Historia de Bizancio

El término Bizancio corresponde al siglo XVI y designaba la parte oriental del antiguo Imperio Romano. La historia del Imperio se puede dividir en cinco etapas: la época protobizantina (s.IV-VII), el repliegue de bizancio (610-842), el apogeo (842-1056,) el declive (1056-1261) y la lenta ...

Yamamoto Isoroku

leadership, strategy, conflict

Admiral Yamamoto Isoroku was the defining Japanese naval commander of World War II. Yamamoto's career in the Imperial Japanese Navy started in the early years of the 20th century and he saw service in the Russo-Japanese War, being wounded in the battle of Tsushima ...

El Alamein

the battle that turned the tide of the Second World War

Before the Battle of El Alamein in 1942, the British had never won a major battle on land against the Germans; nor indeed had anyone else. Drawing on a remarkable array of first-hand accounts, this book reveals the personal experiences of those on the frontline ...

Politics and power in the Maghreb

Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco from indepedence to the Arab Spring

The overthrow of the regime of President Ben Ali in Tunisia on 14 January 2011 took the world by surprise. The popular revolt in this small Arab country and the effect it had on the wider Arab world prompted questions as to why there had ...

Africa since independence

A genuinely comparative study of the different trajectories and experiences of independent African states. This expanded, revised and updated new edition of an established text now includes the latest scholarship and features more on issues such as AIDS, urbanization, South Sudan, questions of citizenship and ...

Forging Napoleon's Grande Armée

motivation, military culture, and masculinity in the French Army, 1800-1808

The men who fought in Napoleon's Grande Armee built a new empire that changed the world. Remarkably, the same men raised arms during the French Revolution for liberte, egalite, and fraternite. In just over a decade, these freedom fighters, who had once struggled to ...

The rebirth of history

times of riots and uprisings

In the uprisings of the Arab world, Alain Badiou discerns echoes of the European revolutions of 1848. In both cases, the object was to overthrow despotic regimes maintained by the great powers - regimes designed to impose the will of financial oligarchies. Both events occurred after ...

Indomitable will

turning defeat into victory from Pearl Harbor to Midway

This is a unique look at how America during World War II gained strengths from early defeats such as Bataan or Corregidor. "Indomitable Will" resurrects the legacy of the first half-year of American combat during World War II - a legacy of pain, but not of ...

Reyes sodomitas

monarcas y favoritos en las cortes del Renacimiento y Barroco

Reyes sodomitas no es una mera sucesión de biografías de reyes. Miguel Cabañas Agrela, con este libro, trata de reflejar las vidas y las experiencias vitales de unos seres humanos que, desde lo más alto de la jerarquía social que les tocó vivir por nacimiento ...

Monarchs of the Renaissance

the lives and reigns of 42 european kings and queens

During the Renaissance, the monarchy became the dominant ruling power in Europe. It was an era of formidable kings and queens who crushed the feudal rights of their nobles, defended the Catholic Church against the encroachments of Protestantism, fought self-aggrandizing wars and were great patrons ...

A jesuit the forbidden city

Matteo Ricci, 1552-1610

A 16th century Italian Jesuit, Matteo Ricci was the founder of the Catholic Mission in China and one of the most famous missionaries of all time. A pioneer in bringing Christianity to China, Ricci spent twenty eight years in the country, in which time he ...

Rome

an empire's story

The idea of empire was created in ancient Rome and even today the Roman empire offers a powerful image for thinking about imperialism. Traces of its monuments and literature can be found across Europe, the Near East, and North Africa - and sometimes even further afield ...

La comunicación política en la Edad Media

(Edad Media. Revista de Historia, Nº13, año 2012)

SUMARIO: DOSSIER MONOGRÁFICO: La comunicación política en la Edad media Jan DUMOLYN, Political communication and political power in the Middle Ages: a conceptual journey Sophia MENACHE, The Gelasian Theory from a communication perspective: development and decline José Manuel NIETO SORIA, El pregón real en la ...

Comédies

Tome IV: Les Thesmophories - Les Grenouilles

ouées deux mois après Lysistrata, aux grandes Dionysies de mars 411, les Thesmophories est la deuxième pièce « féminine » (mais sûrement pas féministe) d'Aristophane. Toutefois, si, comme dans Lysistrata, le chœur est composé de femmes, les préoccupations de ces dernières sont bien différentes. Les thesmophories ...

Mis memorias

Casi desde sus comienzos como cronista y novelista, Salgari obtuvo un notable éxito de público. En sus últimos años, era el escritor con mejores ventas de Europa: algunas de sus ochenta y cuatro novelas superaron la cota hasta entonces desconocida de los cien mil ejemplares ...

Yossarian durmió aquí

John Yossarian es el protagonista de la novela 'Catch-22' (Trampa-22): una sátira teñida de humor negro que desde su aparición en 1961 ha vendido diez millones de ejemplares. Inspirándose en su propia experiencia durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, su autor, Joseph Heller, escribió una despiadada ...