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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...

Campos de muerte. Geografía del mal no pretende ser un inventario de la crueldad, sino un fogonazo de la profunda vileza que caracteriza a nuestra especie. En sus páginas se desentraña la implacable evidencia de la sangre y las lágrimas derramadas por millones de deportados, víctimas del hambre, el agotamiento, las enfermedades o, simplemente, el asesinato. Campos de exterminio, torturas, experimentos médicos aberrantes, mano de obra esclava, inhumanas condiciones de vida. Crímenes como los del Holocausto, los cometidos por el régimen estalinista o los del Jémer Rojo, junto con las...

The book series Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie, founded by Gustav Gröber in 1905, is among the most renowned publications in Romance Studies. It covers the entire field of Romance linguistics, including the national languages as well as the lesser studied Romance languages. The editors welcome submissions of high-quality monographs and collected volumes on all areas of linguistic research, on medieval literature and on textual criticism. The publication languages of the series are French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and Romanian as well as German and English. Each...

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