El mundo clásico

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La Orden de Calatrava, cumplidos los 850 años de su existencia en 2008, fue la primera orden religiosomilitar creada en España y una de las primeras en Europa, para defender la cristiandad frente al empuje bélico del islam. Fue fundada en la ciudad-fortaleza de Calatrava en el siglo XII (en 1158), después de que los templarios no se vieran con coraje suficiente para defenderla frente a los ataques musulmanes. El abad Raimundo de Fitero (Navarra) y Diego Velázquez, monje de su monasterio que había sido guerrero en su juventud, se ofrecen voluntarios a Sancho III para hacerse cargo de la...

La historia de España está repleta de personajes con excepcionales cualidades físicas e intelectuales que les proporcionaron un talento por encima del resto. Fuertes, valientes, resistentes, inteligentes… «Superhéroes», al fin y al cabo. César Cervera rescata, con excepcional agudeza y detalle, el mito y la realidad de aquellos hombres y mujeres que trufaron los campos de batalla de Europa con extraordinarias gestas. Desde Diego García de Paredes al Duque de Osuna, pasando por Julián Romero, Juan del Águila o la Monja Alférez, esta obra pretende ser un recuerdo objetivo y...

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