Palacios de España

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Este libro propone una revisión de la historia de Occidente. Su objetivo es rastrear las improntas del pasado que son todavía reconocibles en nuestro presente y descifrar las huellas todavía perceptibles de los lugares esenciales, los personajes célebres, los eventos trascendentales y las tendencias intelectuales que Occidente reconoce como propias; lo que hoy llamaríamos su ADN. Se trata de un recorrido por algunas ricas metrópolis de la Antigüedad como Jerusalén, Atenas, Roma, Antioquía, Alejandría y Constantinopla; la prodigiosa expansión del cristianismo; la dolorosa escisión...

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...

Desmitificando los tópicos con que se nos suelen presentar los tiempos de la caballería, Sean McGlynn, profesor de la Universidad de Bristol, nos descubre en este libro la salvaje realidad de la guerra en la Edad Media: una realidad de trato brutal contra soldados y civiles, de presos masacrados, ciudades saqueadas, campos devastados ... Nada de esto era fortuito, sino que estaba encaminado a lograr unos determinados objetivos: figuras históricas que nos han llegado envueltas en un halo caballeresco, como Carlomagno, Saladino o Ricardo Corazón de León, no dudaron en recurrir a las más...