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De la calle Pi y Maragall al Tercio de San Miguel

(recuerdos de un requeté)

En esta obra el autor nos relata en un castellano fresco y directo sus recuerdos juveniles e intensas vivencias durante los convulsos años de la Segunda República y la Guerra Civil. Desde sus precoces actividades periodísticas y políticas en la AET (Agrupación Escolar Tradicionalista)-que ...

Confesiones

mi familia, mis amigos y mi época

Francisco de Cossío fue, antes que nada y después de todo, un espectador. Este oficio, el de espectador, es uno de los más difíciles de aprender y de ejercitar. Se necesita, desde muy niño, haberse educado en tensar ciertos resortes del alma, dejando relajar, al ...

Medieval Philosophy

Why do good things happen to bad people? Can we prove whether God exists? What is the difference between right and wrong? Medieval Philosophers were centrally concerned with such questions: questions which are as relevant today as a thousand years ago when the likes of ...

Sandy Pylos

an archaeological history from Nestor to Navarino

This book traces the archaeological history of Pylos and surrounding regions in Messenia from the Palaeolithic to the present. Designed as much for general readers and travelers interested in ancient Greece as for scholars, the volume presents the findings of the Pylos Regional Archaeological Project ...

Los infanzones de Aragón en la Edad Media

La baja nobleza aragonesa la constituían los infanzones e infanzonas. Los varones que habían recibido la investidura de armas recibían el nombre de caballeros y los que se preparaban para ello el de escuderos (que no hay que confundir con el escudero sirviente). Para acreditar ...

Los reinos de España y Portugal

li regni di Spagna e di Portogallo

Edición e introducción a cargo de José María Moreno Martín. Tal y como puede comprobarse en el estudio introductorio de esta edición, el mapa de Francisco Pomares con láminas de Batolomeo Pinelli, constituye una pieza singular dentro del dinamismo cartográfico que provocó la contienda. Singularidad ...

Spinoza

Benedict de Spinoza (1632-77) was one of towering philosophers of the seventeenth century, described by Bertrand Russell as 'the noblest and most lovable of all the great philosophers'. His work investigated some of the deepest questions of philosophy and whilst renowned for his metaphysics, he ...

Citizens to Lords

a social history of western political thought from antiquity to the Middles Ages

Treating canonical thinkers as passionately engaged human beings, Wood examines their ideas not simply in the context of political language but as creative responses to the social relations and conflicts of their time and place. She identifies a distinctive relation between property and state in ...

The atlantic world 1450-2000

This ambitious work provides an overview of the Atlantic world, since the 15th century, by exploring the major themes that define the study of this region. Contact with Europeans in Africa and the Americas, the slave trade, gender and race in the early Atlantic world ...

Women and the reformation

The Reformation introduced a new and expanded role for women as critical participants in Christian life. "Women and the Reformation" gathers historical materials and personal accounts to provide a comprehensive and accessible look at the causes and effects of the changing status of women in ...

Historia de Castilla

reflexiones desde el siglo XXI

Castilla, como entidad geohistórica, acumula, en los albores del siglo XXI, una dilatada existencia que sobrepasa ya los 1200 años. Desde aquel "pequeño rincón", que nombraba el poema de Fernán González, las dinámicas propias de la medievalidad la empujaron a convertirse en el reino hegemónico ...

León II

cerámica romana de paredes finas de época julioclaudia en el campamento de la Legio VI Victrix en León: los materiales del Polígono de la Palomera

ÍNDICE: Prólogo.- Agradecimientos.- Introducción.- La cerámica romana de paredes finas en el cuadrante noroccidental de la Península Ibérica: estado de la investigación.- Panorama diacrónico sobre la cerámica romana de paredes finas en el cuadrante noroccidental de la Península Ibérica.- Estado de la cuestión sobre los ...

Key words in religion, media and culture

'From "The Passion of the Christ" to the presumed 'clash of civilizations', religion's role in culture is increasingly contested and mediated. "Key Words in Religion, Media, and Culture" is a welcome and interdisciplinary contribution that maps the territory for those who aim to make ...

Mary Tudor

Mary Tudor is often written off as a hopeless, twisted queen who tried desperately to pull England back to the Catholic Church that was so dear to her mother, and sent many to burn at the stake in the process. In this radical re-evaluation of ...

The republican roman army

a sourcebook

"The Republican Roman Army" assembles a wide range of source material and introduces the latest scholarship on the evolution of the Roman Army and the Roman experience of war. The author has carefully selected and translated key texts, many of them not previously available in ...

Dress and the roman woman

self-presentation and society

In ancient Rome, the subtlest details in dress helped to distinguish between levels of social and moral hierarchy. Clothes were a key part of the sign systems of Roman civilization - a central aspect of its visual language, for women as well as men. This engaging ...

Formularios de contratación civil y mercantil

Tras el éxito de la primera edición. Presentamos al segunda edición de esta obra con todos los contratos revisados y puestos al día de su normativa aplicable y además incorporamos más de 25 nuevos modelos, con lo cual esta obra es imprescindible para todos los ...

Beijing

from imperial capital to olympic city

This title describes the evolution of a major city from ancient seat of the Chinese empire to modern host of the 2008 Olympics. It takes advantage of increased focus on Beijing and the 2008 Summer Games. As China's economy continues to soar, the city ...

Medievalism and orientalism

three essays and literature, architecture and cultural identity

This volume offers a unique interpretation of medieval cultural history. It examines the cultural conception of the Middle Ages. It roots current cultural interests with history.By examining sources in cultural history, literature, and architecture, this book reveals mutual influences evident in the development of ...

Ejercicios sobre las clases de palabras del español