Las grandes profecías de la historia

Revoluciones, sequías, hambrunas, invasiones, guerras, regicidios... Los desastres que se sucedieron en la segunda mitad del siglo xvii no sólo no tenían precedentes, sino que se propagaron por el globo de una forma atroz. La crisis mundial se extendió desde Inglaterra hasta Japón, desde el Imperio ruso hasta el África subsahariana. El continente americano tampoco escapó a las turbulencias. El prestigioso historiador Geoffrey Parker ha investigado en archivos del mundo entero (cita alrededor de 2.500 fuentes) y nos muestra aquí unos 700 testimonios de hombres y mujeres que contaron en ...

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Abderramán III fue el principal artífice del esplendor de al-Andalus, aunque para ello tuvo que renunciar a sus propios intereses personales. Él mismo dejó constancia de ello en un manuscrito que se encontró tras su muerte en el que afirmaba que en toda su larga y exitosa vida sólo conoció catorce días felices. En la obra cobra una especial importancia el relato del amor del califa con su concubina Azahra a la que quiso inmortalizar con la construcción del gran palacio de Medina Zahara.

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