Imperios y bárbaros

José Soto Chica, el autor del exitoso Imperio y bárbaros. La guerra en la Edad Oscura , regresa con un volumen que aborda una época crucial en la historia de España, el tiempo que hace de bisagra entre la Antigüedad y el Medievo, el tiempo del primer reino que se enseñoreo sobre toda la península ibérica, el tiempo de los visigodos. Rastreando los nebulosos orígenes de los godos en Escandinavia, el libro acompaña a estos en una migración que los llevó a penetrar en el Imperio romano, a saquear por primera vez en siete siglos la Ciudad Eterna y a asentarse, por fin, en la...

The need to protect the physical and cultural environment in which we operate is the logical consequence of the dramatic transformations witnessed in recent years due to rapid urban development. This book seeks new ways to understand the natural and historic patrimony, increasing the evidences that we use to define our cultural heritage. The importance of this has been increasing in recent years leading to the creation of legal categories by the "European Landscape Convention". In Toledo, as a result of a peculiar historical evolution that has prevented the existence of large urban change...

El nombre Johannes Althusius ha sido prácticamente olvidado. Y esto pese a ser -o acaso precisamente por ser- un alemán. En la historia de la ciencia del Estado se acostumbra a hablar poco de las aportaciones de escritores alemanes en épocas anteriores a las hazañas espirituales del genial Samuel Pufendorf, las cuales, éstas sí, son imposibles de ser silenciadas. Se da por sentado que, hasta entonces, si pasamos por alto el influjo, realmente inmenso, pero solo indirecto, de los reformadores alemanes sobre la doctrina del Estado, la participación de los alemanes en las enconadas luchas ...

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