Breve Historia de las Cruzadas

Ever since the Neolithic revolution, although interpreted in different ways, a belief has remained unchanged in its essence, that someone of a non-human nature instructing men on how to face the multiple challenges that have been raising over time. This is the magical part of what we know as Tradition, and magical because, despite always working, its mechanisms do not seem to correspond to formal logic. That is why, from the cradle of civilization numerous groups of people have associated in one way or another to study of magic. Not the one that entertains, but the one that has been...

El viaje de Magallanes-Elcano, hace ya quinientos años, es una de las más emocionantes aventuras de la historia. Sus protagonistas viven al límite, dispuestos a superar dificultades sin precedentes con tal de culminar su hazaña: dar la vuelta al mundo. Para enriquecer el relato, el autor utiliza sus conocimientos de navegación, oceanografía, astronomía, meteorología y climatología para exponer las asombrosas circunstancias de uno de los viajes más difíciles de la historia: una "aventura histórica", porque todo lo que se narra corresponde a hechos reales y sobrepasa a cualquier...

Una historia social de España a través de sus canciones más famosas. ¿Qué dicen de nosotros las canciones que escuchamos? ¿Se puede contar la historia de un país a partir de su música? Este personal ensayo recorre la historia cantada del siglo XX español hasta 1976. Las canciones del momento se convierten en el mejor atajo para entender y sentir cómo fue el mundo y la vida de nuestros padres y de nuestros abuelos. «La vaca lechera» nos habla del hambre de la posguerra, «Tatuaje» o «La Bien Pagá» del corsé represivo del nacionalcatolicismo, «Ay, Carmela» o el «Cara al...

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...

This study is the analysis of the original navigational diary written by Antonio de Tova, in comparison with the published version of 1943, resulted in the discovery of some remarkable mysteries, including the addition of an entire chapter in the 1943 version that is nonexistent in the original.