Moche: propuestas y perspectivas

En este volumen se ofrece por primera vez la traducción al español de un texto del viajero austriaco del siglo XIX Isidore Löwenstern. Este volumen constituye un excelente retrato de la vida y costumbres del México de la época, así como de los lugares y situaciones de mayor importancia para el viajero. Es, además, una aproximación privilegiada, desde la perspectiva de un explorador de filiación monárquica y colonialista, al pensamiento que el hombre del viejo mundo guardaba sobre su contraparte extranjera.

"Siena: City of Secrets" is a charming, intimate portrait of this most secretive of cities, often overlooked by travelers to Italy. Part cultural history and intellectual memoir, part travelogue and guide book, Tylus writes with a novelist s flair, taking the reader on a quest of discovery through the well- and not-so-well-travelled roads and alleys of the ancient city. Today, Siena can appear on the surface standoffish, a bit static, and very old-fashioned, especially when compared to its larger, flashier cousins Roma and Firenze. But first impressions wear away as we learn from Tylus that...

Obra de referencia dividida en cuatro grandes bloques temáticos -El destino de las provincias occidentales del Imperio romana, El feudalismo y sus alternativas, Género y Religión y sociedad-, que recoge algunos de los trabajos más originales e influyentes en la reciente renovación de la historia medieval.

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