Portus-Numis: Ensayos Numismaticos

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute...

Desde 1492, el continente americano -las Indias, el Nuevo Mundo o Cuarta Pars, como se le llamó durante más de un siglo- quedó unido al Occidente europeo, como consecuencia del impulso expansivo que, de un siglo atrás, experimentaban las monarquías ibéricas. La historia del continente quedó desde entonces estrechamente ligada a la de Europa, y allí se trasladaron las dos formas de la cultura cristiano-occidental en que quedó dividido el viejo continente tras la reforma protestante: la de base mediterránea -latina, católica y barroca-, y la anglosajona protestante-calvinista. La...

" Edad oscura" es el nombre que tradicionalmente se ha venido dando al periodo comprendido entre las grandes invasiones germánicas y la eclosión del Imperio carolingio, un tiempo que supuso la transformación definitiva del mundo antiguo y el alumbramiento del Medievo. Y aunque las nuevas corrientes historiográficas han cuestionado ese adjetivo, no parece baladí cuando comprobamos una característica esencial del periodo: la ubicuidad de la guerra. Los conflictos bélicos, ya fueran de carácter casi mundial porque enfrentaban a los grandes imperios, o de carácter local, fueron continuos ...