Gaspar Castaño de Sosa

Traces the history of the Jews in Spain until the expulsion in 1492 in regard to relations between the Crown, the Church, and the populace regarding the Jews and Conversos. Discusses, also, the fate of the Conversos during the 16th century. Focuses on Castile, with special attention to the city of Ávila. Asserts that anti-Jewish hostility in Spain, already from the time of the Visigoths, was not based on racism, but rather on negative religious stereotypes rooted in the minds of the populace and of the lower clergy, as well as on socioeconomic factors, such as the rise of Jews to dominant...

Desde India y Ceilán, hasta China y Japón, pasando por Indochina, Malasia e Indonesia. Viajes por Asia nos transporta hasta el final del siglo XIX y principios del siglo XX, cuando los imperios coloniales, todavía presentes en la zona, fomentaban la llegada de los primeros turistas, viajeros y trotamundos, en una larga y agotadora travesía alentada por el exotismo, la aventura, el ensueño y los intereses económicos. A lo largo de este periplo por el sureste asiático, el lector irá descubriendo que este hermoso paisaje no fue más que una abstracción y un ideal geográfico, que...

Ce volume est une suite. Il tire sa genèse d'une précédente étude sur « Les villes de Lusitanie romaine » (1991), où, pour la première fois, les problèmes de territoires et de hiérarchisation urbaine liés à la romanisation ont été considérés à l'échelle de cette province antique de l'extrême occident. Il s'agit cette fois du premier regard d'ensemble porté sur les campagnes lusitaniennes, et singulièrement à l'action de l'homme sur le paysage rural. À l'heure où les paysages et campagnes de l'Antiquité font précisément l'objet de nombreuses publications d'ensemble,...

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