Palacios de España

From feudalism to the rise of cities, this book is a guide to the secrets and mysteries of the medieval world. It explores the plight of serfs, the bravery of the knights-errant, the frustrated ventures that were the Crusades, the romanticism of courtly love, and a number of other topics in an engaging style. The book also focuses on the role the Catholic Church played during the Middle Ages—often for ill—examining indulgences, the Inquisition, and the motivation for the construction of gothic cathedrals. Desde el feudalismo hasta el surgimiento de las ciudades, este libro es una guía de ...

Perhaps the opening paragraph from Paul Larson¿s (Baylor University) prologue to the Epistola ad Mahomatem II summarizes what this new Scripta Humanistica volume has to offer to readers of literature and history alike: ¿This new scholarly edition certainly begs the question: how can a fifteenth century letter from the then Pope Pius II to the Muslim conqueror of Constantinople have any relevance for contemporary scholars and students in the early 21st century? Embroiled as we are in chaotic and tumultuous religious and political conflict in Europe and the Middle East, perhaps the answer is...

Richard Sorge fue un hombre con dos patrias. Hijo de padre alemán y de madre rusa nacido en Bakú en 1895, se movió en un mundo de alianzas inestables e infinitas posibilidades. Sorge pertenecía a aquella generación indignada y decepcionada que encontró nuevas y radicales ideas tras su experiencia en los campos de batalla de la primera guerra mundial; se convirtió en un fanático del comunismo y en el mejor espía de la Unión Soviética. Como muchos buenos espías, Sorge fue un seductor incansable, combinando su encanto con un despiadado poder de manipulación. Gracias a su magnetismo...

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