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J.R.S. Phillips muestra de manera detallada el alcance de la expansi n medieval europea entre los a os 1000 y 1500, sus ra ces en las ideas cl sicas del mundo, y c mo stas promovieron los famosos viajes del Renacimiento. Asimismo, examina algunos de los mitos que eran corrientes en Europa antes del a o 1500, y algunos de los que han surgido desde entonces, como el mapa de Vinland.

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Leah Otis-Cour rebate en este libro algunos prejuicios habituales: no era la coacción familiar, la hostilidad al placer y el despiadado sometimiento de la mujer lo que marcaba la elección conyugal, la sexualidad y la vida cotidiana en la Edad Media, sino la libertad de decisión, la sensualidad y el respeto mutuo. La Edad Media pierde a través de esta nueva interpretación gran parte de su “obscuridad” y se revela casi como fundamento de lo que constituye el hombre moderno. La nueva colección Historia de Europa, preparada y editada inicialmente por S. Fischer Verlag (Alemania), invita ...