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Los libertos de la Hispania romana se enmarcan dentro de un estudio articulado para su contribución a la sociedad hispanorromana. Para su análisis, se han utilizado las fuentes literarias y epigráficas que, a lo largo de un proceso cronologico amplio (desde finales de la Republica hasta finales del siglo III d. C.), contribuyeron a esclarecer el papel que tuvieron, a veces, dentro del ambito romano. Nuestro interes y objetivo es analizar todos aquellos aspectos que las fuentes antiguas escritas han proporcionado. La monografia se divide en cuatro partes: la primera, la situacion juridica y el estado personal de los libertos hispanos hasta el momento en que el emperador Caracalla concede la ciudadania romana a todos los habitantes del Imperio. Hay indicadores para detectar a los libertos en la documentacion escrita, de ahi que llevemos a cabo una seleccion epigrafica. Ademas, la procedencia de los libertos y su situacion juridica son aspectos que conforman el marco ideal de este grupo social y, por tanto, la sociedad hispana se organizo en funcion de la categoria juridica de las personas, que tras ser liberadas, pasaban a libres, pero sometidas a algunas restricciones juridicas. Por tanto, el estado personal y las relaciones familiares indican que tuvieron enormes dificultades para integrarse en los grupos sociales de las sociedades hispanas, aunque algunos muy pocos llegaron a conseguir a traves del matrimonio una mejor posicion social. La segunda parte corresponde a la situacion social y economica de los libertos hispanos. El esclavo manumitido presenta cierta igualdad con el ingenuus, sui iuris, que se manifiesta mejor en los libertos imperiales al disponer de unos privilegios por formar parte de la domus imperial. Se tiene constancia de ejemplos de libertos que llegaron a alcanzar un estadio que les permitio escapar del silencio, al que les llevaba su propia condicion. La situacion socio-economica, las relaciones con sus antiguos propietarios, la duracion de su matrimonio, los hijos ilegitimos, la adopcion legal y los tipos de relaciones laborales son aspectos que acreditan, en alguna medida, el modo de vida y la ubicacion social de los libertos hispanos. La tercera parte, la promocion social y politica de los imperiales, publicos y augustales llegaron a formar un sector especifico. La heterogeneidad y complejidad es producto de su vinculacion con la familia Caesaris. Los libertos imperiales conforman la elite de este colectivo al estar encargados de controlar todas las actividades de la casa imperial. La vida social y publica de los libertos imperiales, de los publicos y los privados les permitio acceder a puestos que, en principio, les estaban vedados. La cuarta parte, el mundo religioso de los libertos que, como es habitual y de forma individual, son los encargados de elegir el monumento votivo para dedicarselo a la divinidad. Uno de los ambitos en los que los libertos pudieron gozar de un importante protagonismo, fue sin duda en el marco de la religion romana, debido a su determinante caracter politico-social y cuyo principal contenido se reflejaba en el espacio publico a traves de la materializacion de actos cultuales. Los cultos tradicionales, las divinidades augustas, las divinidades orientales, las divinidades prerromanas y el evergetismo religioso y civil de los libertos son manifestaciones de su integracion de la vida religiosa en las ciudades hispanas.

Through most of eight hundred years, Somerled of Argyll has been variously denounced as an intractable rebel against his rightful king and esteemed as the honoured ancestor of the later medieval Lord of the Isles, but he can be recognised now as a much more complex figure of major prominence in twelfth-century Scotland and of truly landmark significance in the long history of the Gael. In this book individual chapters investigate his emergence in the forefront of the Gaelic-Norse aristocracy of the western seaboard, his part in Gaeldoms challenge to the Canmore kings of Scots, his war on the Manx king of the Isles, his importance for the church on Iona, and his extraordinary invasion of the Clyde which was cut short by his violent death at Renfrew in 1164. Perhaps most impressive is the books demonstration of how almost everything that is known of or has been claimed for Somerled reflects the same characteristic fusion of Norse and Celt which binds the cultural roots of Gaeldom. It is this recognition which has led its author to his proposal of Somerleds wider historical importance as the personality who most represents the first fully-fledged emergence of the medieval Celtic-Scandinavian cultural province from which is directly descended the Gaelic Scotland of today.

Published ahead of the centenary of the Queens birth, this beautifully illustrated book uncovers the hidden history of the Crown and how it survived a tumultuous era and two world wars. **Features over 100 sumptuous images**From the birth of the house of Windsor in 1917, its leading women - Queen Mary, the Queen Mother, the Duchess of Windsor and Queen Elizabeth II - faced abdication and assassination, revolution and the rise of fascism, the threat of invasion and all-out war. Their sartorial decisions, alongside those of their royal husbands, projected power and perpetuity, diplomacy and defiance. In this cinematic story of espionage and exquisite couture, Justine Picardie reveals the undercover lives of the creators behind the facade - including Hardy Amies, Cecil Beaton, Norman Hartnell and Edward Molyneux - and traces the ways in which visual iconography safeguarded the monarchy even when their reign seemed to be hanging by a thread.Drawing on original research in the Royal Archives and her own experiences at Balmoral, Windsor Castle and Buckingham Palace, Picardie explores the family feuds and international conflicts that challenged the Crown, and how royal fashion is wielded as a weapon.

We all know of of the various wars, the Famine and the pivotal events which have made the Ireland what it is today, but few know the stranger aspects of the nations past. From body snatchers, to pirate queens and Celtic vampires, Irelands hidden history is explored here in a book bound to thrill and astound you from the first page.

She was the great-grandmother of Europe. Her descendants sit on thrones across the continent to this day. But Princess Louise of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg was all but written out of history.Fascinating, rigorously researched and vividly told...[a] groundbreaking biography. - Dr Anna WhitelockAn invaluable study of the little-known Princess without whom the course of British and European history would have been so very different. Robert HardmanIn 1846, the eyes of the British royal family fall on the small village of Pfeffelbach in western Germany. It is here, in a church that is crumbling before them, that the mother of Prince Albert, Queen Victorias husband, was laid to rest and forgotten about. And it is time to bring her home.Married off at 16 to the 33-year-old Duke Ernst Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Louise bore two sons, Ernst and Albert, but her unhappy marriage led to her banishment, divorce, and loss of her children. She died alone at just 31, her reputation destroyed by court gossip and political intrigue. Was she a fallen woman, or a victim of royal machinations? And was Prince Albert truly Ernsts son?Princess Louise played a crucial role in the rise of the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, but while her son Albert entered history, she was removed from it. Based on a decade of original research, A Royal Outcast is the first English-language biography to explore the life and legacy of Princess Louise of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg the woman the royal family tried to bury to save Prince Alberts reputation.

Ireland went to the 2023 rugby world cup as the number one ranked team in the world. They were the reigning grand slam holders; and still they came home early.Getting to the last four of the World Cup has become a national obsession. But is this the only measure of success? In Touching Distance, Brendan Fanning, one of the games most authoritative voices, shines a piercing light on every corner of the Irish rugby system, from grassroots to green jersey, illuminating the fine lines and thin margins between success and failure.From the breakthrough years of Eddie OSullivan to men of massive influence like Joe Schmidt and Stuart Lancaster, with David Nucifora the first tsar of Irish rugby in the pro era through to Andy Farrell, the man in whom Irish fans hopes now rest, no stone is left unturned in Fannings revealing and absorbing narrative.With the clock already counting down to the 2027 World Cup in Australia, where are Ireland on their quest for the top? And is glory finally within reach?A hugely enjoyable book that gives a fascinating insight into whats been going on behind the curtain of Irish rugby over the last 20 years. SHANE HORGANSmart, incisive and packed with great stories. Most of what I know about rugby Ive learned from reading Brendan Fanning. PAUL HOWARD

From the bestselling author of the Time Travellers Guides In these sparkling A to Zs, time-travelling historian Ian Mortimer visits four classic periods of English history: the fourteenth century, the Elizabethan age, the Restoration and the Regency. As he ranges from the Great Plague to the Great Freeze, from Armada to Austen, and from tobacco to toenails, he shines a light into corners of history we never knew were so fascinating -- or so revealing of the whole. How did the button change life in the Middle Ages? If you found yourself at a smart Elizabethan party, should you kiss your hostess on the lips? Why were pistols safer than swords in a duel? And how come Regency Londoners quaffed so much port? This is Mortimer at his accessible and witty best. As ever, his aim is not only to bring the past to life but also to illuminate our own times.

A Copa do Mundo de 1954, realizada na Suíça, permanece como um dos capítulos mais intensos, dramáticos e emblemáticos da história do futebol. Conhecida como a "Copa dos Mil Gols" e marcada pelo famoso "Milagre de Berna", o torneio no foi apenas um espetaculo esportivo, mas tambem um reflexo das transformaçes politicas, sociais e culturais da decada de 1950, um periodo em que o mundo ainda buscava se reconstruir apos os traumas da Segunda Guerra Mundial.

É evidente que há muitas posições de tensão em relação ao termo "Israel", porque são irracionais. Que um termo seja emocionalmente vinculado é nada mais do que normal, nada mais do que comum. Mas que

A vida da publicitária Coralina Prisco sofre uma reviravolta e ela tem a chance de mudar de cenário quando, a convite de sua melhor amiga, se muda para a França. Edgar Woods, médico inglês que ela ha

The Risorgimento, the period of nation-state formation, has always had particular significance not only in the historiography of Italy but also for the transnational and comparative history of the founding of nation-states. Gabriele Clemens presents a new, up-to-date and well-founded overview of the history of the Risorgimento. Her account covers an entire century of Italian history, beginning around 1770, before the French Revolution, and ending in 1870 with the conquest of Rome by the troops of the burgeoning nation state. This balanced and highly readable account combines the perspective of political cultural history with an economic and social historical approach. At the same time, it offers new interpretations, for example on the roles played by the nobility and the bourgeoisie. It questions the established claim that the masses were mobilized by means of art, music and literature and critically analyses the significance of Garibaldi, the man and the myth. The path to the nation state is described as the work of a state-supporting elite that acts consistently in transnational networks.

George Downing came of age as a Puritan pioneer in colonial Massachusetts, before crossing the Atlantic to sign up for the English Civil War. He fast became Oliver Cromwells chief of military intelligence and was later a diplomat and an MP. However, Downing spectacularly switched sides, shamelessly betraying his friends. He prospered under Charles II, yet he remains one of the most elusive figures of his age. In Turncoat he emerges as the extraordinary - if troubling - anti-hero of his own life story.Judged by contemporaries to be a fearful gentleman and a perfidious rogue, Downing was a double-dealer who bribed and blackmailed his way to diplomatic success across Europe; and, when it was expedient, betrayed friends to horrifically violent deaths. He pioneered the practice of judicial kidnapping known today as extraordinary rendition, was a booster of the Atlantic slave trade and had a hand in starting two major wars. Always at the centre of events, Downing engaged with the most illustrious men and women of his times. His patrons were Oliver Cromwell and King Charles II. Samuel Pepys was his clerk; John Milton prepared his letters and dispatches. William of Orange was godfather to his son; his next-door neighbour was Queen Elizabeth of Bohemia; and when Downing finally built his street, his surveyor was Sir Christopher Wren. Turncoat follows George Downing from the asceticism of Puritan New England, across English battlefields, through courts, chancelleries and parliaments, to the fleshpots of Restoration London, where he would spend his final years in unrestrained indulgence as one of the richest men in the kingdom.

In The Hungarian Gentleman Farmer, Baroness Orczy turns her eye once more to the countryside of her beloved homeland, this time exploring the life and traditions of the landed gentry. Through vivid description and personal insight, she captures the rhythms of rural estates, the responsibilities of noble landowners, and the delicate balance between privilege and duty in Hungarian society. Rich with cultural detail, the book highlights the elegance and struggles of a class that stood between aristocracy and peasantry, preserving tradition while facing the pressures of modernity. Part memoir, part social study, it is both an affectionate portrait and a valuable historical record of Hungary at the dawn of the 20th century.

Jonathan Bardons A History of Ulster is widely regarded as the definitive text on the region. Updated with a more recent preface from the author, this illustrated, abridged version offers a comprehensive but accessible overview of life in the province for anyone seeking to understand the roots of its troubled history.The Vikings, the Norman invasions, the plantations, the Penal Laws, the rise of the United Irishmen and Orangeism, the Act of Union, the linen and shipbuilding industries, the Home Rule Crisis and partition, the civil rights movement, the Troubles and the peace process its all here in this essential companion to Jonathan Bardons bestselling A History of Ireland in 100 Episodes.

O estudo do Império Colonial Alemão, erguido entre o final do século XIX e as primeiras décadas do século XX, revela uma das faces mais controversas e ao mesmo tempo menos conhecidas do período do im

A vital history from the award-winning Financial Times journalist Philip Stephens on the dramatic century since the Anglo-Irish Treaty and partition.These Divided Isles tells the story from both sides of the Irish Sea. Cutting through the layers of grievance and prejudice it explores the emotional intimacy and enmity of a relationship shaped by close familial ties and clashing national identities. Its a story written by big political leaders - David Lloyd George, Michael Collins, Winston Churchill and Eamon de Valera - and the millions of Irish emigrants who crossed from Ireland to Britain to begin new lives.Today demography, Brexit and political logic have brought the possibility of Irish unity into view. Grounded in decades of personal contact and interviews with key policymakers across Britain and Europe, Stephens maps this complex relationship and asks how Ireland might deploy its history to inform its future rather than hold it in place.

A Odisseia Proibida – Guerra no Hades Eles tiraram tudo o que ele mais amava. Deuses cruéis, indiferentes ao destino dos mortais. Aetos, um guerreiro marcado pela dor e forjado no cerco de Troia, car

O Gaulês Tricolor simboliza não apenas o torcedor apaixonado pela seleção francesa, mas também a figura daquele que carrega em si o peso da nação: dividido entre o orgulho da camisa azul e as feridas