La OIT en América del Sur

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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...

A bestselling historian recounts the epic clash that ended the Renaissance and pushed Islam to the gates of Vienna In Warriors of God and Dogs of God, James Reston, Jr., brought two epochal events in the struggle between Islam and Christendom to readers eager to understand the roots of the present-day conflict. With his unwavering eye for detail, Reston now weaves a captivating narrative that examines a pivotal period in that centuries- long war, which found Europe at its most vulnerable and Islam on the attack. This saga of colliding worlds is propelled by two astonishing young...

Situado en el corazón mismo del monoteísmo y la cultura occidental, Moisés no es una figura de la historia, sino de la memoria, y como tal se convierte en el objeto principal de esta obra de Jan Assmann. Con increíble maestría, Assmann nos introduce en el mundo de los recuerdos, y nos muestra de qué forma se conservaron, modificaron o eliminaron los recuerdos relacionados con dos acontecimientos clave de la historia del antiguo Egipto: la revolución monoteísta de Akhenatón y la expulsión de los reyes hicsos que supuso el comienzo del Imperio Nuevo. A través de las páginas de este...