Memorias Y Lugares de Memoria de Europe

En la Nueva España, la religión dictaba las normas de comportamiento; la vida monástica era vista como modelo ideal y el internado de las niñas en conventos aseguraba su virtud y su buena educación. Muchas internas pasaban a la adolescencia y a la edad adulta sin que les llegara el "remedio" de un marido que las sacase de su encierro, y buscaban pretextos para salir, mientras que otras, cuando en el siglo XVIII se decretó su salida "al mundo", sufrieron miedo, soledad y desamparo. La colección La aventura de la vida cotidiana está orientada hacia el público interesado en la historia...

This study looks at the concepts of society, space, urbanism, expansion and organisation in the transition from Late Antiquity to the medieval period in Castile, Spain. Escalona reviews the evidence for the Iron Age and Roman antecedents in this area and details the history of fragmentation of the different territories within it, especially under the Visigoths and prior to the medieval period. Escalona discusses the development of a series of territories including Juarros, Carazo, Barbadillo and Salas, and focuses in particular on Lara which, by the middle of the 11th century, had become the...

With contributions by well-known and respected critics, writing of a very high caliber, and essays that explore hitherto uncharted territory, Mirrors and Echoes is a welcome addition to the growing literature on Spanish women's writing. Lou Charnon-Deutsch, author of Narratives of Desire: Nineteenth-Century Spanish Fiction by Women"

Now a #1 New York Times Bestseller! A road trip book with a difference. Stars of Outlander- Sam Heughan & Graham McTavish - explore Scotland, a land of raw beauty, poetry, feuding, music, history, and warfare. From their faithful camper van to boats, kayaks, bicycles, and motorbikes, join stars of OutlanderSam and Graham on a road trip with a difference, as two Scotsmen explore a land of raw beauty, poetry, feuding, music, history, and warfare. Unlikely friends Sam and Graham begin their journey in the heart of Scotland at Glencoe and travel from there all the way to Inverness and Culloden...