Breve Historia de las Cruzadas

Ever since the Neolithic revolution, although interpreted in different ways, a belief has remained unchanged in its essence, that someone of a non-human nature instructing men on how to face the multiple challenges that have been raising over time. This is the magical part of what we know as Tradition, and magical because, despite always working, its mechanisms do not seem to correspond to formal logic. That is why, from the cradle of civilization numerous groups of people have associated in one way or another to study of magic. Not the one that entertains, but the one that has been...

11 contributions consider legacy and archive data (1896–1995) and results derived from recent archaeological investigations (2012–2017) to present a review and analysis of the chrono-stratigraphy, material culture, urbanism, and economic and ritual practices at El Palacio, northern Michoacán, Mexico, between A.D. 850 and 1521.

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Los últimos vestigios del Antiguo Régimen, que inútilmente pretenderán defender las antiguas clases dirigentes, quedarán barridos del escenario europeo por el empuje de las nuevas fuerzas surgidas de la revolución industrial. Aún predominan los factores de la economía tradicional: la producción agrícola es superior a la industrial; los transportes continúan siendo lentos y caros, a pesar de la creciente extensión de los ferrocarriles; las oligarquías financieras no prodigan los créditos bancarios. Pero surge, pujante, apoyada en el soporte ideológico que le ofrece el...

Más que un catálogo de relojería, el lector tiene en sus manos un trabajo que indaga sobre la relación del ser humano con el tiempo, vínculo inexorable que se logra gracias a un dispositivo que convierte el tiempo en objeto perceptible. A pesar de que se trata de un estudio específico acerca de una sociedad en particular, no se debe ignorar que los relojes hacen parte de una historia que enlaza al mundo Antiguo, pasando por la Edad Media como punto coyuntural, con el mundo Contemporáneo. Teniendo como base la colección de relojes de la Casa Museo Quinta de Bolívar y del Museo de la...