El Puente Pegasus

"El libro que hoy sugerimos como publicación de interés revive de forma clara y sencilla, este ambiente cultural italiano del siglo XVIII donde incansables artistas, boquiabiertos viajeros y concienzudos estudiosos de viejas ruinas y nuevos hallazgos, todos ellos españoles, pues el libro estudia la presencia cultural española, se devanaban los sesos tratando de aprovechar al máximo el tiempo de estancia que tenían asignado siempre, a su parecer, escaso."(Web Librería Antes) Aristócratas insolventes, aventureros cosmopolitas, arqueólogos ilustrados y artistas canallescos reunidos en...

This book deals with the evangelization of Spanish-speaking America between the European conquest and independence. The study investigates the concepts and strategies of catechesis, the general conditions of Church law and national politics as well as the prerequisites and conditions on the part of the Indians. New and specific forms of mutual understanding, of mediation and resistance developed through the transfer of European knowledge to a second geographical area and through the contact of cultures and religions. These new forms evolved beyond the sphere of religion and determine cultural ...

This study looks at the concepts of society, space, urbanism, expansion and organisation in the transition from Late Antiquity to the medieval period in Castile, Spain. Escalona reviews the evidence for the Iron Age and Roman antecedents in this area and details the history of fragmentation of the different territories within it, especially under the Visigoths and prior to the medieval period. Escalona discusses the development of a series of territories including Juarros, Carazo, Barbadillo and Salas, and focuses in particular on Lara which, by the middle of the 11th century, had become the...

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