Instituciones políticas del reinado de Alfonso I "el Batallador", rey de Aragón y Pamplona (1104-1134)

High in the Inyo Mountains, between Owens Valley and Death Valley National Park, lies the ghost town of Cerro Gordo. Discovered in 1865, this silver town boomed to a population of 3,000 people in the hands of savvy entrepreneurs during the 1870s. As the silver played out and the town faded, a few hung on to the dream. By the early 1900s, Louis D. Gordon wandered up the Yellow Grade Road where freight wagons once traversed with silver and supplies and took a closer look at the zinc ore that had been tossed aside by early miners. The Fat Hill lived again, primarily as a small company town. By...

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A través del diálogo entre la historia económica y urbana y la historia cortesana, las contribuciones reunidas en este volumen pretenden profundizar en el conocimiento de las relaciones materiales y económicas que mantuvieron las ciudades y las cortes cristianas de la Península Ibérica, entre los siglos XIV y XV. A finales de la Edad Media, aquellas cortes solían ser itinerantes: a lo largo del año, visitaban y se alojaban tanto en pequeños centros urbanos como en ciudades, donde no siempre disponían de un palacio propio. Viajes y estancias que suponían una contínua demanda de...

Desde la prehistoria de Sevilla hasta la ciudad cristiana y visigoda, se estudian con rigor científico los orígenes y el devenir de una trayectoria histórica que llega hasta la ocupación musulmana de la ciudad; todo ello sin perder el tono divulgativo y la riqueza expresiva del autor, figura señera de la Arqueología.