Historia de España en la Edad Moderna

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Desmitificando los tópicos con que se nos suelen presentar los tiempos de la caballería, Sean McGlynn, profesor de la Universidad de Bristol, nos descubre en este libro la salvaje realidad de la guerra en la Edad Media: una realidad de trato brutal contra soldados y civiles, de presos masacrados, ciudades saqueadas, campos devastados ... Nada de esto era fortuito, sino que estaba encaminado a lograr unos determinados objetivos: figuras históricas que nos han llegado envueltas en un halo caballeresco, como Carlomagno, Saladino o Ricardo Corazón de León, no dudaron en recurrir a las más...

The abolition of judicial torture—alongside the eradication of both slavery and capital punishment—was one of the most consequential issues debated in eighteenth-century continental Europe. A revealing component of this controversial debate was presented in the unpublished "Discurso sobre la injusticia del apremio judicial," written by the attorney Pedro Garcia del Canuelo. Seeking support for its publication, he forwarded the manuscript to Prime Minister Manuel Godoy in 1795. The savvy Spanish politician, however, not only rejected the text but also warned its author against further...

Este innovador y bien documentado estudio sobre los vikingos establece los hechos que explican su emergencia y terrible reputación. Paddy Griffith somete a un incisivo examen el arte vikingo de la guerra: utiliza el pensamiento militar moderno para analizar sus tácticas, su pericia náutica, su movilidad, su estrategia, su concepto de la batalla, y el modo en que afrontaban la victoria y la derrota. Muestra cómo fueron capaces de fundar y mantener colonias en territorios hostiles y de enfrentarse a un enorme espectro de enemigos ? desde los francos y los anglosajones hasta los búlgaros...