XMY El Almirante. Tras la estela del Temple

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...

Recoge: El espacio mediterráneo; Del Magreb a Oriente; El Arco Latino; La España mediterránea; Mediterráneo y creación.

Geoffrey Parker, una de las grandes figuras del hispanismo británico, replantea aquí, a la luz de las últimas aportaciones, el tema de los orígenes de la decadencia española, situándolo en el contexto de la crisis mundial del siglo XVII: una sucesión de desastres climáticos y de guerras que llevó a algunos a la desesperación o al suicidio y a otros a revolverse contra “aquellos a los que consideraban responsables de sus infortunios”. Los errores políticos de Felipe IV cobran así un sentido distinto y los orígenes de la decadencia se nos muestran en una nueva perspectiva. El...

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