Fábrica de resistencias y recuperación social

El profesor Joseph Bergin y sus colaboradores nos ofrecen en este volumen una exposición sintética pero integral de los distintos aspectos de la Europa del siglo XVII: desde la economía y la sociedad hasta la política, la guerra y la vida intelectual. No omiten, desde luego, las oportunas referencias a una realidad más amplia que la europea en un tiempo que los autores califican de "era de la curiosidad". Las originales aportaciones de este libro, escrito por los mejores especialistas del siglo XVII, sorprenderán a quienes están familiarizados con el período como una época de crisis...

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute...

Es difícil olvidar que buena parte de las diferencias culturales actuales tienen su origen en la Edad Media. Nadie discute actualmente que las sociedades medievales peninsulares participan del conjunto de rasgos que caracterizan en esencia al occidente medieval; tampoco que las diferencias entre los distintos reinos hispanos impiden la reducción de la historia del conjunto a un solo relato unificador.