From Al-Andalus to the Americas (13th-17th Centuries). Destruction and Construcion of Societies offers a multi-perspective view of the filiation of colonial and settler colonial experiences, from the Medieval Iberian Peninsula to the early modern Americas.

Long-distance ties connecting Europeans from all geographical corners of the continent during the fifteenth and sixteenth century facilitated the sharing of religious texts, books, iconography, ideas, and practices. The contributions to this book aim to reconstruct these European networks of knowledge exchange by exploring how religious ideas and strategies of transformation 'travelled' and were shared in European and transatlantic cultural spaces. In order to come to a better understanding of Europe-wide processes of religious culture and religious change, the chapters focus on the agency of the laity in 'new communities of interpretation', instead of intellectual elites, the aristocracy, and religious institutions. These new communities of interpretation were often formed by an urban laity active in politics, finance, and commerce. The agency of religious literatures in the European vernaculars in processes of religious purification, reform, and innovation during the long fifteenth century is still largely underestimated. 'Networking Europe' aims to step away from studying 'national' textual production and consumption by approaching these topics instead from a European and interconnected perspective. The contributions to this book explore late medieval and early modern networks connecting people and transporting texts following three main axes of investigation: 'European Connections', 'Exiles, Diasporas, and Migrants', and 'Mobility and Dissemination'.

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500 años después de la fundación del histórico puerto francés de Le Havre, TASCHEN presenta una reproducción facsímil de Les premières œuvres de Jacques Devaulx, pilote en la marine (Primeras obras d

Bakos AdriannaLouis XI, known as "The Spider King" because he wove many intricate plots, lives on in popular imagination primarily as a villain and a cruel, cunning, rather unscrupulous character. Absolutists fled to his banner while constitutionalists reviled him as a rapacious totalitarian murderer. In Images of Kingship in Early Modern France, Adrianna Bakos uses the changing nature of Louis XI's historical reputation to explore the intellectual and political climate of early modern France. She examines the political aims of those who wrote about Louis XI's reign and how these aims informed their writings. She also discusses the landscape of early modern French political discourse as well as surveying the literature from the period, offering new and more complex interpretations of the complicated intellectual climate of France.

Le presentamos la prestigiosa Historia de España iniciada por Ramón Menéndez Pidal, dirigida por José María Jover Zamora y con un plantel de destacados especialistas. Una obra de consulta y lectura que satisfaga totalmente tanto al estudioso como a todo aquel lector que desee una vision objetiva de la historia de nuestro pais. La Historia de España Menendez Pidal contiene los mas rigurosos analisis sobre los acontecimientos decisivos que marcan nuestra historia. 65 volumenes con mas de 53.000 paginas. Formato 21 x 28 cm. Encuadernacion en guaflex con estampaciones en oro. Mas de 19.000 ilustraciones en blanco y negro y a color.

This highly original book opens up the almost entirely neglected area of the black African presence in Western Europe during the Renaissance. Covering history, literature, art history and anthropology, it investigates a whole range of black African experience and representation across Renaissance Europe, from various types of slavery to black musicians and dancers, from real and symbolic Africans at court to the views of the Catholic Church, and from writers of African descent to Black African criminality. Their findings demonstrate the variety and complexity of black African life in fifteenth and sixteenth-century Europe, and how it was affected by firmly held preconceptions relating to the African continent and its inhabitants, reinforced by Renaissance ideas and conditions. Of enormous importance both for European and American history, this book mixes empirical material and theoretical approaches, and addresses such issues as stereotypes, changing black African identity, and cultural representation in art and literature.

Cayetana Alvarez De ToledoThis work examines the relationship between Spain and America in the seventeenth century through the life and thought of Juan de Palafox, a protege of the count-duke of Olivares who became Visitor General of New Spain. Alvarez de Toledo explores the failed attempt made by Palafox to reform overseas government on constitutional lines, and thus throws light upon the Spanish practice of empire and on how the transatlantic relationship worked and developed.

This text seeks to redefine the early modern English economy by rejecting the concept of capitalism, and instead explores the cultural meaning of credit, resulting from the way in which it was economically structured. It is a major argument of the book that money was used only in a limited number of exchanges, and that credit in terms of household reputation, was a "cultural currency" of trust used to transact most business. As the market expanded in the late 16th century, such trust became harder to maintain, leading to an explosion of debt litigation, which in turn resulted in social ...

Esta obra & x02212;2.ª edición revisada y muy aumentada de la edición premiada de 2023& x02212; muestra, a traves de los fondos cartográfico de la Biblioteca Geneíral Histórica de la Universi