Las artes decorativas medievales

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...

Durante más de tres siglos, el Ejército y la Armada de España mantuvieron una ardua lucha contra unos enemigos audaces e irreductibles, los moros de Filipinas, concentrados principalmente en las islas de Mindanao y de Joló. Fue una guerra despiadada, durante la cual, hasta sus últimas etapas, ni se concedía ni se recibía cuartel. Sus escenarios fueron mares inclementes y traidores, sembrados de arrecifes coralinos y de bancos de arena, en los que la simple navegación ya era una hazaña, más aún cuando estaban infestados de embarcaciones hostiles, cargadas de tripulaciones...

Exclusive interviews with key political figures in Mexico—former presidents Zedillo and Salinas, and guerrilla leader Marcos—are the basis of this study that untangles the complex influences that have shaped Mexico over the past 20 years. From the Zapatistas to electoral fraud, this well-researched history accounts for many parts of Mexican politics and economy that have remained obscured by official silence. Beyond recurring catastrophes, however, this journalist finds the seed of a modern democracy in Vicente Fox's presidency, one which the author analyzes in a prologue added for this...

This revised thesis aims to add to our knowledge of Hispano-Roman architecture in the Lusitanian capital of Augusta Emerita through an exploration of its theatre and amphitheatre.