El Islam y España

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Bringing the everyday lives of everyday people into the spotlight, each one of the titles in this series takes a look at the day-to-day details of ancient civilizations and their time periods. They also offer insight into daily chores, family structures, and the practice of religion. Through these pages, today's readers can see the everyday details that have managed to survive space and time. Reflejando la vida cotidiana de la gente común, cada uno de los títulos de la colección intenta rescatar las particularidades de los pueblos de la antigüedad y de los períodos históricos que hoy...

Cinco décadas han pasado desde que el mundo conoció asombrado la noticia de la muerte de Ernesto Che Guevara, asesinado por las fuerzas militares bolivianas el 9 de octubre de 1967 en La Higuera, una aldea en el sureste de Bolivia.Antes de su ejecución por los disparos de un suboficial, particularmente después, mucho se ha escrito sobre el controvertido guerrillero nacido en Argentina en 1928. Sus años políticos formativos han sido contados muchas veces, incluso por medios visuales, en documentales o en The Motorcycle Diaries, una película de 2004 dirigida por Walter Salles, un...

This study looks at the concepts of society, space, urbanism, expansion and organisation in the transition from Late Antiquity to the medieval period in Castile, Spain. Escalona reviews the evidence for the Iron Age and Roman antecedents in this area and details the history of fragmentation of the different territories within it, especially under the Visigoths and prior to the medieval period. Escalona discusses the development of a series of territories including Juarros, Carazo, Barbadillo and Salas, and focuses in particular on Lara which, by the middle of the 11th century, had become the...