Vida y muerte de un convento

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La correspondencia mantenida entre varias familias asentadas en un espacio que incluye tierra de Cameros, °lava, Guip_zcoa, Vizcaya, Santander y Navarra se convierte en el motor de la historia de un reducido e influyente grupo vinculado a la expansi n de las ideas ilustradas por el norte peninsular. Este libro refleja el papel de los miembros de este grupo familiar al calor de la transformaci n que se produce desde finales del s. XVIII. Individuo y grupo conforman una imagen peculiar de las ¥reglas de conducta empleadas en el perÃodo analizado. El control de la informaci n y el manejo de...

¿Inventó Pablo el cristianismo? Los autores utilizan nuevos análisis históricos y descubrimientos arqueológicos para responder a ésta y a otras preguntas vitales sobre Pablo y los primeros cristianos. Crossan y Reed ponen de manifiesto que Pablo, como Jesús, se dedicó enteramente a defender el Reino de Dios –un reino de justicia e igualdad– contra los poderes mundanos dominantes del Imperio romano.

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...