Mariposas, brujas, conjuros, doncellas y caballeros andantes

Estudio del arte monetario en la Edad Media, con especial enfasis en la produccion castellana y leonesa. La moneda, como sucede con otras manifestaciones artisticas, responde a los mismos parametros tecnicos, formales, iconograficos y simbolicos propios de su momento. La presente obra estudia sus manifestaciones, la comparacion de la moneda con las restantes artes, sus aspectos formales y su propia creacion. Asimismo, refleja como la moneda es incorporada en otras manifestaciones artisticas del periodo medieval.

The riveting story of Ferdinand Magellan’s historic 60,000-mile ocean voyage—now updated with a new introduction commemorating the 500th anniversary of his journey. “Prodigious research, sure-footed prose and vivid descriptions make for a thoroughly satisfying account... it is all here in the wondrous detail, a first-rate historical page turner.”— New York Times Book Review Ferdinand Magellan's daring circumnavigation of the globe in the sixteenth century was a three-year odyssey filled with sex, violence, and amazing adventure. Now in Over the Edge of the World, prize-winning...

Elizabeth, New Jersey, the first state capital and the birthplace of Princeton University, was founded in 1665. This illustrious city was extremely influential during the Revolutionary and Colonial periods, and was home to numerous distinguished political and military figures. Over time, Elizabeth developed into an important industrial and economic center, welcoming the Singer Manufacturing Company in 1873 and becoming a recognized leader in automobile manufacturing long before Detroit. The culturally diverse city came to serve also as a crossroads for many commuting to jobs in Newark and in...

As loathsome as it was, the Third Reich also arouses great fascination, which causes everything around it to hold a certain vivid and inextinguishable interest. Whoever approaches these pages will experience what Germans felt during those turbulent years.