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This monumental series, acclaimed as a "masterpiece of comprehensive scholarship" in the New York Times Book Review, reveals the impact of Asia''s high civilizations on the development of modern Western society. The authors examine the ways in which European encounters with Asia have altered the development of Western society, art, literature, science, and religion since the Renaissance.In Volume III: A Century of Advance, the authors have researched seventeenth-century European writings on Asia in an effort to understand how contemporaries saw Asian societies and peoples.

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Warfare is a major feature of the history of the middle ages, but its study has often been the province of amateurs; only recently have the technical details of warfare and its organisation been subject to proper scholarly investigation. Professor Verbruggens major work, outstanding in its field, applies rigorous standards in analysing often very obscure surviving evidence, and reaches conclusions very different from earlier generations of military historians.He begins by analysing the sources for our knowledge of the military history of the period, assessing their reliability: some chroniclers exaggerate, others are careful observers or have access to official records. There follows an examination of the constituent parts of the medieval army, knights and footsoldiers, equipment and terms of service, behaviour on the field, and psychology, before the problematic question of medieval tactics is addressed through analysis of accounts of a series of major battles. Strategy is discussed in the context of these battles: whether to seek battle, fight a defensive war, or attempt a war of conquest.Originally published in Dutch in 1954, now translated and updated.

Praised for its scope and depth, Asia in the Making of Europe is the first comprehensive study of Asian influences on Western culture. For volumes I and II, the author has sifted through virtually every European reference to Asia published in the sixteenth-century; he surveys a vast array of writings describing Asian life and society, the images of Asia that emerge from those writings, and, in turn, the reflections of those images in European literature and art. This monumental achievement reveals profound and pervasive influences of Asian societies on developing Western culture; in doing so, it provides a perspective necessary for a balanced view of world history.Volume I: The Century of Discovery brings together "everything that a European could know of India, Southeast Asia, China, and Japan, from printed books, missionary reports, traders'' accounts and maps" (The New York Review of Books).Volume II: A Century of Wonder examines the influence of that vast new body of information about Asia on the arts, institutions, literatures, and ideas of sixteenth-century Europe.

To the River is the story of the Ouse, the Sussex river in which Virginia Woolf drowned in 1941. One idyllic, midsummer week over sixty years later, Olivia Laing walked Woolf''s river from source to sea.The result is a passionate investigation into how history resides in a landscape - and how ghosts never quite leave the places they love.

ue a menudo pasan desapercibidos al viajero ocasional. Su punto de partida es que los pueblos peninsulares continúan viviendo de espaldas y mostrando una lamentable incapacidad para conocerse a fondo y trabajar juntos para resolver las multiples dificultades que les afectan. Sabemos muy poco, casi nada, de la historia, las costumbres o la idiosincrasia profunda de quienes ocupan la parte occidental de la vieja Iberia entre el Miño y el Algarve. Asuntos como la Revolucion de los Claveles, el fenomeno del fado o los aspectos psicologicos y sociales que diferencian a portugueses y españoles son abordados desde una perspectiva poco habitual. Con este texto, que reune elementos de la cronica de costumbres, el ensayo y el relato desenfadado, tratamos de contribuir a una aproximacion solidaria a nuestro vecino invisible

O regimiento do Santo Officio de Inquisiçao dos reinos de Portugal é una obra que contém as normas aplicáveis aos ministros e oficiais do Santo Officio da Inquisiçao, tais como direitos, obrigaçoes e procedimientos para execuçao da lei. Inlcui un bom indice.

Ce volume se concentre sur l'analyse d'une série de lieux de mémoire, de symboles et de thèmes considérés comme cruciaux pour comprendre le réseau de significations sur lequel le régime franquiste a

El Puzzle de la historia (Antequera como paradigma) es el resultado de la tarea de investigación desarrollada por el autor durante más de veinte años. Se trata de la revisión y ampliación de dos obras publicadas hace un tiempo, Miscelanea historica de Antequera y Fragmentos para la historia de Antequera.El autor conjuga sus dos facetas profesionales, la de archivero e historiador. Ello le permite abordar con maestria temas muy diversos y para un periodo cronologico muy amplio, desde los siglos XVI al XX, situandolos en un contexto mas amplio. Estamos ante un enfoque de caracter humanista.Con El Puzle de la Historia pretendemos reunir todos estos trabajos en un libro que de continuidad a la labor divulgativa que les dio origen, con la intencion de sacar a la luz la informacion de que hemos podido disponer y las fuentes de donde procede, mas como colofon de una labor archivistica que con pretension de historiador.Nuestra unica intencion es divulgar el conocimiento historico entre el gran publico, de dar a conocer la pequeña historia, la que todos y cada uno de nosotros hacemos a diario, porque al fin y al cabo la historia con letras grandes la hace el pueblo, el ciudadano de a pie, los gobernantes tan solo, son meros mandatarios de la voluntad del pueblo soberano que los designa por un tiempo efimero.

Sexta ediçao de la Historia da Origem e Estabelecimiento da Imquisiçao em Portugal. Obra de A. Herculano.

Sexta ediçao de la Historia da Origem e Estabelecimiento da Imquisiçao em Portugal. Obra de A. Herculano.

'Some battles change nothing. Waterloo changed almost everything.' On the 18th June, 1815 the armies of France, Britain and Prussia descended upon a quiet valley south of Brussels. In the previous three days the French army had beaten the British at Quatre-Bras and the Prussians at Ligny. The Allies were in retreat. The blood-soaked battle of Waterloo would become a landmark in European history, to be examined over and again, not least because until the evening of the 18th, the French army was close to prevailing on the battlefield. Now, brought to life by the celebrated novelist Bernard Cornwell, this is the chronicle of the four days leading up to the actual battle and a thrilling hour-by-hour account of that fateful day. In his first work of non-fiction, Cornwell combines his storytelling skills with a meticulously researched history to give a riveting account of every dramatic moment, from Napoleon's escape from Elba to the smoke and gore of the battlefields. Through letters and diaries he also sheds new light on the private thoughts of Napoleon and the Duke of Wellington, as well as the ordinary officers and soldiers. Published to coincide with the bicentenary in 2015, Waterloo is a tense and gripping story of heroism and tragedy - and of the final battle that determined the fate of Europe.

Sus páginas acogen una reflexión sobre por qué Portugal existe como instancia independiente, una consideración general de la historia del país, una aproximación a la literatura portuguesa, una reflexion sobre la relacion de Portugal y Galicia a traves de la lengua y una miscelanea en la que se sopesan elementos varios como las relaciones de Portugal con Brasil, la cocina portuguesa, el fado, el futbol y, en fin, la arquitectura manuelina.

Combien Charlemagne a-t-il eu d'épouses? D'enfants? Pourquoi Aliénor d'Aquitaine a-t-elle été répudiée? Que se passe-t-il quand une reine n'engendre pas d'héritier mâle? Comment Henri IV réussit-il à

Nueva edición de este clásico relato de la lucha nacional irlandesa y su avance en el mundo moderno. Desde los primeros momentos de la historia de Irlanda al proceso de paz, su autor arroja luz sobre

Sexta ediçao de la Historia da Origem e Estabelecimiento da Imquisiçao em Portugal. Obra de A. Herculano.

“Lo siento mucho, me he equivocado; no volverá a ocurrir.”Amb aquesta frase cèlebre de Joan Carles I, pronunciadal’abril del 2012, signe inequívoc d’un regne que trontolla(1975-2014), presentem un ll

Sexta ediçao de la Historia da Origem e Estabelecimiento da Imquisiçao em Portugal. Obra de A. Herculano.

Um documento para a história.

Dentro de la apertura de los Cursos de Verano de Laredo se procedió a la lectura de este canto reivindicativo de la heterogeneidad cultural de nuestro país.