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Jornada tras jornada, durante cuatro meses infernales, Francisco Balbi de Correggio, soldado italiano españolizado que participó en los hechos, escribió este diario del asedio a que sometieron los turcos a la isla de Malta, cuyo dominio era crucial para detener el avance otomano en el Mediterraneo.

El anticatolicismo ha formado parte del pensamiento político y religioso de un amplio sector de la sociedad inglesa del siglo XVI hasta nuestros días. Las figuras del católico y del español han proporcionado cohesión a la Inglaterra protestante en momentos críticos. Este trabajo analiza los mecanismos que el estado y determinados colectivos reformistas utilizaron para excluir en mayor o menor medida a la comunidad católica y garantizar así la estabilidad del régimen anglicano.

Ésta es la historia del hombre como descubridor: la historia de «los innumerables Colones» que se enfrentaron a la superstición y al dogma para ampliar nuestro conocimiento del universo, de los miste

Hicieron de Florencia un centro de poder europeo e iluminaron el mundo impulsando el Renacimiento italiano. Luego lo perdieron todo. Los Medici, la familia de banqueros florentinos más rica, ambiciosa y con mayor poder de la Historia, mecenas de artistas y cientificos de la talla de Leonardo de Vinci, Miguel Angel, Botticelli, y Galileo, ejercieron ininterrumpidamente su influencia sobre gobernantes, nobles, soldados, arquitectos y papas durante mas de trescientos años. Su poder, que fue la fuerza impulsora del Renacimiento italiano, perpetuo un legado de autocomplacencia, conspiraciones, asesinatos y aventuras sexuales que finalmente los condujo a su propia destruccion como linaje.

El aragonés Pedro Cubero Sebastián, nombrado en 1671 Predicador Apostólico en las Indias Orientales, fue el primer viajero que, en el siglo XVII, dio la vuelta al mundo en sentido inverso al habitual, es decir, partiendo de Europa hacia el Extremo Oriente para tornar al punto de partida desde America, realizando ademas su Peregrinacion por tierra siempre que ello le resulto posible. El tono general de su obra es de una extrema veracidad, que contrasta con el de otros viajeros de la epoca,cuya credibilidad y fascinacion ante las inauditas historias que les relatan los naturales de las tierras que visitan no ayudan precisamente a confiar en sus relaciones. Durante los ocho años empleados en su viaje (16711679), Pedro Cubero Sebastian recorre buena parte de Europa hasta llegar a Rusia, continua luego por Persia, donde embarca hacia Bombay, Goa, Ceilan, las costas de Bengala, Malaca y finalmente Filipinas, desde donde prosigue su periplo en el famoso galeon de Manila hasta Acapulco, para ya en tierras americanas, cruzando Mexico de costa a costa, embarcar de nuevo en Veracruz y regresar a Cadiz por el Atlantico, tras hacer escala en La Habana. En la singular aventura protagonizada por el sacerdote Pedro Cubero Sebastian se aunan el sentido apostolico que determina su mision viajera con el espiritu de un verdadero explorador, cautivado por los mundos distantes, los mas reconditos paisajes y las costumbres de los mas diferentes pueblos, convirtiendose asi en uno de los mejores ejemplos de la constancia y la original audacia de los viajeros españoles de su tiempo. Sus escritos constituyen asimismo un documento de primera mano imprescindible para conocer el estado de gran parte del mundo en la segunda mitad del siglo XVII.

This stunning collection of over 170 large-format colour illustrations includes paintings of ships at sea, in action, in convoy, and in siege; architectural drawings; battle diagrams; sea charts and signals; portraits of leading figures in naval history; and details of guns, sails, and life below deck. Taken from contemporary sources, they range from the Seven Years'' War to the American Civil War. The book focuses on the navies of all the major Atlantic sea powers of the time, including Britain, America, France, Holland, Sweden and Russia. Arranged in chronological order, each illustration is accompanied by an extended caption that adds to this visual feast a compelling history of naval warfare in the last great age of sail. This volume is divided into eight chapters: The Seven Years'' War 1755-62; The Napoleonic Wars 1803-15; The War of American Independence 1775-1783; The War of 1812; The Years of Exploration c.1770-1794; The Last Days of Sail; The French Revolutionary Wars 1792-1802; and Steam and Iron.

NAM Rodgers The Command of the Ocean, the second part of his naval history trilogy that began with The Safeguard of the Sea, describes Britains rise to naval greatness during the period 1649-1815 when she finally gained sovereignty of the seas around the British Isles. It ably demonstrates the importance of naval history to the life of government and the nation; links naval history with political, social, economic, diplomatic, administrative, medical and religious history and charts the naval histories of Britains enemies and neighbors including France, Holland, Spain, Denmark and the United States.

Escrito por uno de los más conocidos y respetados historiadores militares británicos, este libro contiene más de 40 documentos facsímiles de gran relevancia histórica procedentes de reciente investigaciones. En el podra revivir aquel extraordinario periodo de la historia, disponiendo ademas de mapas, cartas, anotaciones, informes, mensajes en clave, libros de codigos, proclamas, boletines, cuadernos de bitacora y periodicos nunca publicados hasta ahora y que solo podian encontrarse en archivos y museos de Europa.

This book considers the close but sometimes contested relationship between Britain and Iberia in the period c.17701870. A broad cultural history which is multi-disciplined in its approach and appeal, it will become essential reading for senior level undergraduates and postgraduates in Hispanic Studies departments.

The astonishing tale of the first sea voyage to circumnavigate the entire globe. Magellan''s dramatic maritime expedition in 1519 discovered the straits that enabled Europe to trade with the Eastern spice islands and changed the course of history. In an era of intense commercial rivalry between Spain and Portugal, Ferdinand Magellan, a Portuguese navigator sailed to explore the undiscovered parts of the world and claim them for the Spanish crown in one of the largest and best-equipped expeditions ever mounted in the Age of Discovery. Yet of the fleet of five vessels under his command, only Victoria was to return to Spain after three harrowing years, her captain murdered, more than two hundred of her sailors dead from scurvy, torture, execution and drowning, and a small, ravaged crew that survived to tell the extraordinarily dramatic story.What emerged was a tale of mutiny, of orgies on distant shores, of claims of cannibalism, of death and disease, of missionary zeal and base cruelty, and of incredible discoveries: the earth was indeed round, the Americas were not part of India, the earth was covered mainly by oceans, and a new route that allowed Europe access to the fantastic wealth of the Eastern spice islands. Indeed, despite the devastating loss of life and vessels, the Victoria sailed back laden with enough cloves and other spices for the expedition to be considered a remarkable financial success. Accomplished despite the fact that European mariners were exploring a world that was unmapped and misunderstood, where superstition held sway and there were real fears that you could literally sail over the edge of the world, that sea monsters lurked in the briny depths, or that if you passed the equator, the ocean would boil and scald you to death, this was a truly spectacular achievement. The shockingly explicit diaries of Antonio Pigafetta reveal much of the story.This is a many-layered book -- a voyage into history, a tour of the world as it was emerging from the Middle Ages into the Renaissance, an anthropological account of exotic tribes and a chronicle of a desperate grab for political and commercial power. It is also a gripping adventure story, compelling and full of suspense and drama.

James SimpsonThe evidence is everywhere: fundamentalist reading can stir passions and provoke violence that changes the world. Amid such present-day conflagrations, this illuminating book reminds us of the sources, and profound consequences, of Christian fundamentalism in the 16th century.James Simpson focuses on a critical moment in early modern England, specifically the cultural transformation that allowed common folk to read the Bible for the first time. Widely understood and accepted as the grounding moment of liberalism, this was actually, Simpson tells us, the source of fundamentalism, and of different kinds of persecutory violence. His argument overturns a widely held interpretation of 16th century Protestant reading - and a crucial tenet of the liberal tradition.After exploring the heroism and achievements of 16th century English Lutherans, particularly William Tyndale, Burning to Read turns to the bad news of the Lutheran Bible. Simpson outlines the dark, dynamic, yet demeaning paradoxes of Lutheran reading: its demands that readers hate the biblical text before they can love it; that they be constantly on the lookout for unreadable signs of their own salvation; that evangelical readers be prepared to repudiate friends and all tradition on the basis of their personal reading of Scripture. Such reading practice provoked violence not only against Lutheranism's stated enemies, as Simpson demonstrates; it also prompted psychological violence and permanent schism within its own adherents.The last wave of fundamentalist reading in the West provoked 150 years of violent upheaval; as we approach a second wave, this powerful book alerts us to our peril.

Con la publicación de esta obra unida a la anterior “Resolución sobre la libertad de los negros y sus originarios, en estado de paganos y después ya cristianos” de Francisco José de Jaca el CSIC ha r

Bosquejos del reformismo borbónico (1701-1759) analiza el complejo mundo de las reformas y sus protagonistas. La Monarquía necesitaba publicitarse y aprovechó el impulso de estos procesos y el espíritu ilustrado para crear una imagen idilica de sus logros. Los principales frenos a los proyectos fueron la pluralidad de reformismos, dada la variedad de focos de decision politica, que genero "luchas" por el control del Estado; y los intrincados vericuetos administrativos, un pesado engranaje que relentizaba, al gusto de sus responsables, la toma de decisiones.