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Lepanto. Solo el nombre de esta batalla nos trae a la memoria el cruento choque de civilizaciones que en el pasado enfrentó al islam y la cristiandad. Un momento dramático en el que el destino de Occidente se jugó a una sola carta. “La más alta ocasión que vieron los tiempos”, según observara Miguel de Cervantes, malherido en el combate. Fue una victoria colosal. En toda Europa se tuvo la sensación de que el invencible Imperio Otomano había sido frenado en su imparable avance hacia el Oeste. Italia, directamente amenazada respiró tranquila. Felipe II pudo mostrar que la...

Sin otro compromiso que el rigor no reñido con la claridad y la síntesis expositiva, el lector podrá encontrar en esta obra una panorámica general de la historia de Córdoba, una ciudad milenaria que en los múltiples vestigios de su pasado descubre testimonios elocuentes de sus momentos de grandeza.

Against majority opinion within his profession, Donald Bloxham argues that it is legitimate, often unavoidable, and frequently important for historians to make value judgements about the past. History and Morality draws on a wide range of historical examples, and its author's insights as a practicing historian. Examining concepts like impartiality, neutrality, contextualisation, and the use and abuse of the idea of the past as a foreign country, Bloxham's book investigates how far tacit moral judgements infuse works of history, and how strange those histories would look if the judgements were ...