La mujer en la Sevilla de finales de la Edad Media

Todo parece que comenzó un día indeterminado de un año también impreciso en torno a 1550. Aquel día el alcalde mayor de Lorca –oficio que representaba a la autoridad del rey y que se ejercía en nombre del corregidor residente en Murcia–, el licenciado Quevedo hablaba un tanto desaforadamente en la plaza mayor de la ciudad. Era aquel un lugar concurrido y, en orgullosa altanera ostentación del poder, el dicho Quevedo amenazó públicamente a tal Magdalena López, mujer ya entrada en años y viuda de «un tal Monzón». A grandes voces, aquel Licenciado Quevedo decía en la plaza que ...

By means of this book, the author makes the reader conscious of the Cristero War, provides the tools necessary to see beyond what is already said and form their own opinion about the events. Mediante este libro, el autor hace consciente al lector del significado de la Cristiada, proporcionándole las herramientas necesarias para que vea más allá de lo que se dice y forme su propia opinión sobre estos acontecimientos.

"A fascinating and beautifully argued interpretation of how the American war in Southeast Asia affected Chicano communities. The author provides the most complete and well-documented study to date of this important chapter in U.S. history and its impact on an ethnic group with long-standing traditions of military service, assimilation, and resistance to injustice. Oropeza's book is what students of the Chicano Movement, especially the Mexican American role in antiwar activities during the Vietnam War period, have been waiting for."—George Mariscal, author of Aztlán and Viet Nam: Chicano...

The contributions to this volume are concerned with the Roman law of antiquity in its broadest sense, covering both private and public law from the Roman Republic to the Byzantine era, including legal papyrology. They also examine the reception of Roman law in Western Europe and its colonies (specifically the Dutch East Indies) from the Middle Ages to the promulgation of the German Burgerliche Gesetzbuch in 1900. They reflect the wide interests of Professor Boudewijn Sirks, whom the volume honours on the occasion of his retirement and whose work and career have transcended frontiers and...