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Bernal Díaz del Castillo (1492-1584) was a foot soldier in the army of Mexico's conqueror Hernán Cortés. The first edition of his True History of the Conquest of New Spain (as it was entitled in a later English translation) was published in Madrid in 1632 from a manuscript copy sent to Spain shortly after the author's death. Written in a highly accessible style, and describing the experiences of the troops themselves rather than seeing events from an officer's perspective, the work became even more successful than the official accounts and went through many editions and translations. The...

En el siglo VIII hunden sus raíces las tres Monarquías históricas –de Castilla, de Aragón y de Navarra– que en el tránsito del Medioevo a la Modernidad confluyeron en la creación de la Monarquía de España, que hoy representa su Majestad D. Felipe VI de Borbón. La monografía trata del surgimiento y desarrollo de poderes políticos, nacidos a lo largo del siglo VIII, desde el Finisterre galaico, al cabo de las Santas Creus. Algún lector se preguntará por qué a estas páginas no les he dado el título de «La Reconquista, los orígenes». La respuesta es sencilla: porque sus...

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Un relato documentado y ágil que explica la eterna guerra oculta entre los Templarios y el Vaticano, el destino de la Flota perdida de La Rochelle, los viajes precolombinos a América, el acoso de los piratas de Temple al Imperio Español, la influencia de la Masonería en la independencia americana...