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La obra es frutode veinte años de atento seguimiento de aquel largo reinado de más de treinta y seis años, que presidió un momento crucial para la Corona de Aragón y su expansión mediterránea, y que dejo huella profunda en infinidad de documentos, la mayor parte de ellos registrados o conservados en el Archivo de la Corona de Aragon de Barcelona, asi como en otros muchos en diversos archivos municipales o eclesiasticos.

Esa contra-cultura, en su origen específica e íntegramente cristiana, que fue la cultura monástica medieval, despertó, resucitó y promovió una Europa que las invasiones bárbaras habían casi aniquilado. en todos los ambitos, empezando, como es logico, por el de la piedad y de las practicas, impulsada por una fe de sorprendente intensidad, labro en profundidad y fertilizo las tierras abandonadas de todo cultivo, del alma y de la civilizacion occidental. multiforme, omnipresente, fertemente motivada, no existe campo donde no haya dejado su huella, ni una provincia o region donde monumentos de una indecible belleza o sus ruinas, esas cicatrices de la Historia, no atestiguen su ferviente presencia. Profunda, original y fuertemente estrucutrada, la cultura monastica benedictina ha respondido durante siglos de manera directa y a la vez intima, a las preguntas y a los problemas de hombre occidental, marcandolo para siempre.

"Governing Scotland" explores the origins and development of the Scottish Office in an attempt to understand Scotland's position within the UK union state in the 20th century. Two competing views were encapsulated in debates on how Scotland should be governed in the early 20th century: a Whitehall view that emphasized a professional bureaucracy with power centred on London and a Scottish view that emphasized the importance of Scottish national sentiment. These views were ultimately reconciled in "administrative devolution".

Colección dirigida por José María Jover Zamora . Colaboran en el presente volumen María Jesús Viguera Molins , Antonio Malpica Cuello , Juan Vernet , Juliao Samsó , Antonio Fernández-Puertas , Ana Echevarria Arsuaga , Maria Dolores Rodriguez Gomez y Francisco Juez Juarros . Continuacion del Tomo VIII. Volumen 3 de la misma Historia de España Menendez Pidal .

Colección dirigida por José María Jover Zamora . Colaboran en el presente volumen María Jesús Viguera Molins , Francisco Vidal Castro , María del Carmen Jiménez Mata , María Isabel Calero Secall , Cristobal Torres Delgado y Guillermo Rossello Bordoy . Continua en el Tomo VIII. Volumen 4 de la misma Historia de España Menendez Pidal .

The premier form of Roman money since the time of the Second Punic War (218-201 B.C.), coins were vital to the success of Roman state finances, taxation, markets, and commerce beyond the frontiers. Yet until now, the economic and social history of Rome has been written independently of numismatic studies, which detail such technical information as weight standards, mint output, hoards, and finds at archaeological sites. In Coinage in the Roman Economy, 300 B.C. to A.D. 700, noted classicist and numismatist Kenneth W. Harl brings together these two fields in the first comprehensive history of how Roman coins were minted and used. Drawing on literary and documentary sources as well as on current methods of metallurgical study and statistical analysis of coins from archaeological sites, Harl presents a sweeping overview of a system of coinage in use for more than a millennium. Challenging much recent scholarship, he emphasizes the important role played by coins in the overseas expansion of the Roman Republic during the second century B.C., in imperial inflationary policies during the third and fourth centuries A.D., and in the dissolution of the Roman Mediterranean order in the seventh century A.D. He also offers the first region-by-region analysis of prices and wages throughout Roman history with reference to the changing buying power of the major circulating denominations. And he shows how the seldom-studied provincial, civic, and imitative coinages were in fact important components of Roman currency. Richly illustrated with photographic reproductions of nearly three hundred specimens, Coinage in the Roman Economy offers a significant contribution to Roman economic history. Itwill be of interest to scholars and students of classical antiquity and the Middle Ages, as well as to professional and amateur numismatists.