Administración de la provincia Hispania citerior durante el Alto Imperio romano, La

A finales de 1776, apenas seis meses después de la histórica Declaración de Independencia de los Estados Unidos, la Revolución americana agonizaba. Nueva York había caído y el Ejército Continental de George Washington se batía en retirada. Filadelfia, sede del Congreso Continental, parecía tener las horas contadas. La recién nacida nación norteamericana carecía de marina, de artillería que se preciara, de preparación militar, de pólvora... y de posibilidades reales de derrotar a Gran Bretaña; al menos por sí sola. Hermanos de armas. La intervención de España y Francia que...

Perhaps the opening paragraph from Paul Larson¿s (Baylor University) prologue to the Epistola ad Mahomatem II summarizes what this new Scripta Humanistica volume has to offer to readers of literature and history alike: ¿This new scholarly edition certainly begs the question: how can a fifteenth century letter from the then Pope Pius II to the Muslim conqueror of Constantinople have any relevance for contemporary scholars and students in the early 21st century? Embroiled as we are in chaotic and tumultuous religious and political conflict in Europe and the Middle East, perhaps the answer is...

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Muy pocos de los antiguos imperios y naciones fueron capaces de desafiar a los romanos, que eran famosos por su poderío militar.