Voces de la trinchera

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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...

Este trabajo estudia cuándo y por qué llegaron los primeros israelitas a las Españas; los sentimientos que dominaban en las aljamas de época romana y visigoda; la primera confrontación entre la Iglesia y la Sinagoga; la aparición del criptojudaísmo y el papel de las aljamas en la invasión islámica del año 711.

Este libro reúne las reflexiones de un conjunto de medievalistas europeos sobre algunos casos significativos de las distintas trayectorias seguidas por la historiografía del mundo rural medieval en sus países respectivos. Esta aproximación internacional proporciona una visión más profunda de cuáles han sido las relaciones de los estudios rurales medievales con otros debates en las ciencias sociales y resalta las conexiones entre las distintas tradiciones históricas nacionales y los problemas del presente de cada una de estas sociedades. La comparación entre diferentes regiones...