Pico en el aire

Desde el siglo XI y durante más de cuatro siglos numerosos guerreros cristianos provenientes de muchos lugares de Europa se dirigieron a la Península Ibérica para participar en la guerra que, desde el siglo VIII, mantenían los cristianos hispanos contra los musulmanes de al-Andalus y a la que la historiografía en general ha denominado Reconquista. Muchos de ellos, después de su estancia en Hispania, proseguían su camino hacia Tierra Santa para combatir en las Cruzadas. Otros venían ex profeso para participar en una «Guerra Santa» que desde el siglo XI fue auspiciada por los papas,...

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Tracing musicology in Latin American during the twentieth century, this book presents case studies to illustrate how Latin American music has interacted with social and global processes. It addresses popular music, postcolonialism, women in music, tradition and modernity, musical counterculture, globalization, and identity construction.

The saints and wicked schemers, murderers, opportunists, unbalanced, wise, clumsy, warriors, cowards, brave, humble, arrogant, lustful, chaste, degenerate, altruistic, intellectual and with very short or very long reigns. Learn about the history of the Christian kingdoms through the 98 monarchs that ruled them.