DIANA EN LA RELIGIOSIDAD HISPANORROMANA. II (DIANA DE SEGÓBRIGA)

Estudio sobre diversos aspectos de la economía señorial y los criterios de gestión de los grandes patrimonios aristocráticos castellanos durante los siglos XV al XVIII.

En 1937, durante las persecuciones de Stalin, el alma de Genghis Khan desapareció del monasterio budista de Mongolia donde se había guardado durante siglos. Se pretendía eliminar hasta el recuerdo de quien era considerado como un tirano sangriento. Hasta que el descubrimiento de un manuscrito de la Historia secreta de los mongoles, que se creía perdida, hizo surgir a la luz la verdad sobre el hombre que conquistó un imperio mayor que el de Roma y asentó en él las bases de una civilización y un progreso que anunciaban el mundo moderno. El profesor Weatherford comenzó en 1990 a...

The contributions to this volume are concerned with the Roman law of antiquity in its broadest sense, covering both private and public law from the Roman Republic to the Byzantine era, including legal papyrology. They also examine the reception of Roman law in Western Europe and its colonies (specifically the Dutch East Indies) from the Middle Ages to the promulgation of the German Burgerliche Gesetzbuch in 1900. They reflect the wide interests of Professor Boudewijn Sirks, whom the volume honours on the occasion of his retirement and whose work and career have transcended frontiers and...

For more than half a century, Cuba has suffered one of the longest-running dictatorships in history, where dozens of political prisoners are held in prison, and the entire population is locked up in a large penitentiary where neither dissent nor disagreement is forgiven, and the dissidents are punished with years in prison or death. It is a new oligarchic class, with a single political party, without elections, with an absolute disregard for Human Rights, without public and civil liberties, making it illegal to be part of the political opposition, with public education in the exclusive hands...