Bernardino de Sahagún

We Spaniards are the people that have done the most in the history of humanity, even shaping the world we inhabit. But also the people most ashamed of their triumphs, their achievements, their victories and their discoveries. The authors dismantle the most controversial elements of the Black Legend, both the traditional one - the Inquisition, the expulsion of the Jews, the conquest of America, the scientific and cultural backwardness, slavery - and the one renewed by the work of the nazionalisms.

Primera traducción al castellano de esta obra fundamental de la historiografía romana, que narra los sucesos acaecidos entre los años 353 y 378 de nuestra era, y los intentos de varios emperadores por conseguir la estabilidad de un imperio en decadencia.

Juan Uría Ríu nace en Oviedo el 7 de octubre de 1891. Estudia Derecho en la Universidad ovetense. Posteriormente se traslada a Madrid, donde se licencia en Historia. A fines de 1918, participa en la fundación del Centro de Estudios Asturianos, siendo uno de los principales animadores desde su Boletín, en el que da a conocer sus primeros trabajos de investigación, centrados por entonces en la etnografía y la antropología física. En 1927 presenta su tesis doctoral sobre "Las peregrinaciones a San Salvador de Oviedo". En los años siguientes, profundiza en la investigación tanto...

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