Otra idea de Cataluña

Una ventana al pasado que permite repensar los problemas del presente, cuando la Argentina se prepara para conmemorar su segundo siglo de vida.

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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...

Las galeras fueron los barcos icónicos en las guerras del Mediterráneo durante más de dos milenios y nos evocan la imagen de decenas de remos golpeando las aguas del Mare Nostrum para impulsar la nave hasta lograr la velocidad de embestida... y allí, bajo la línea de flotación, se encontraba su arma letal: un espolón capaz de desfondar a cualquier barco enemigo. Tras un golpe propinado con toda celeridad, la madera de la galera atacada, de forma lenta pero segura, terminaba por irse a pique. Pero esta prolongación de la proa fue solo una de las muchas armas con las que podía contar...