La arqueología en Andalucía durante la Ilustración, 1736-1808

Recuerdos, datos, anécdotas de este arqueólogo chileno, que recorre los últimos 20 años de su quehacer profesional, intercalando vivencias personales vinculadas a su preocupación vital: el patrimonio tangible e intangible.

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Bernal Díaz del Castillo (1492-1584) was a foot soldier in the army of Mexico's conqueror Hernán Cortés. The first edition of his True History of the Conquest of New Spain (as it was entitled in a later English translation) was published in Madrid in 1632 from a manuscript copy sent to Spain shortly after the author's death. Written in a highly accessible style, and describing the experiences of the troops themselves rather than seeing events from an officer's perspective, the work became even more successful than the official accounts and went through many editions and translations. The...

La fascinante historia de siete ilustres monarcas femeninas protagonistas de reinados admirables y periodos de prosperidad y gloria para sus pueblos. Al indagar en el devenir de las principales monarquías pronto se hizo patente que las personalidades seductoras y llamativas y los reinados más admirables, eficientes y "útiles", si es que pude usarse ese adjetivo refiriéndose a reinados, fueron los de algunas reinas. Ha habido muchas menos reinas que ejerciesen la auctoritas y la potestas, que reyes, sin embargo el resultado de ejercicio de la potestas es abrumador a favor de estas....