La Mesopotamia arcaica

These papers are centered on the Crown of Aragon in the later Middle Ages, its achievements (the more remarkable given the very evident problems with which it was beset), and especially on its role in the Mediterranean. Hence the emphasis on Majorca, its leading intellectual figure, Ramon Lull (1232-1316), and his influence, and related to these the article on Thomas Aquinas. Other studies deal with the relations of Christians and Jews in Majorca, down to the Expulsion from Spain. In these papers Professor Hillgarth seeks to investigate the transmission of learning and how what is transmitted ...

En este libro, un grupo de investigadores especialistas en el tema militar romano se ha enfrentado al reto de estudiar diversas situaciones y el contexto de la muerte del soldado romano: el que cae en el combate o en periodo de paz por otras causas, y, en otros casos, de analizar aspectos jurí­dicos o religiosos.

La trágica noche del 30 de agosto de 1996, 415 terroristas del Bloque Sur de las Farc atacaron por sorpresa y arrasaron la base militar de Las Delicias, ubicada a orillas del Río Caquetá. Después de 17 horas de fieros combates, 28 militares perdieron la vida, 60 fueron secuestrados y 15 quedaron heridos de gravedad. El improvisado cuartel era un sencillo conjunto de kioscos, construido al estilo maloca indígena, y habitado por una compañía de infantería del batallón de Selva N° 49, que cumplía misiones antinarcóticos, sin los criterios tácticos y técnicos inherentes a una...

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...