Los monjes de la guerra

The first in a series of monographic serials on Pre-Columbian art and design. This first number is devoted to Pre-Columbian art and design sources that related to popular identity. Subscriptions available for future issues.

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute...

Descubrimiento del río de las Amazonas incluye textos de los siguientes autores: Gaspar de Carvajal, Pedrarias de Almesto, Martín de Saavedra Galindo y Alonso de Rojas.

Un libro que recrea como ninguno la verdadera mentalidad de la Europa medieval. Montaillou, aldea del sudoeste francés, fue hogar, durante el siglo XIV, de un buen número de inconformistas, herejes cátaros. Jacques Fournier, obispo del lugar (y futuro Papa de Aviñón), los persiguió e interrogó implacablemente hasta desenterrar la intimidad cotidiana, los dramas personales y, en definitiva, todos los secretos de la zona. Los extraordinarios escritos resultantes fueron interpretados, seiscientos cincuenta años después, por el historiador Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie a la luz de la...