Friar Bringas Reports to the King

El propósito de este libro no es presentar una historia de la España visigoda, sino tratar de acercar al lector a las experiencias de la sociedad de ese período histórico (que abarca los siglos VI y VII), sus problemas, sus obligaciones,sus miedos (raramente,según se desprende de la documentación, sus alegrías), sus modos de ser, sus modos de comunicación y cultura, así como sus formas de poder, el origen y fundamento de la realeza, su capacidad coercitiva,sus recursos,su capacidad para enfrentarse a la guerra y a la defensa y las formas de gobierno. El estudio de este período...

Repasa los puntos fundamentales respecto a los distintos modelos de crecimiento implantados en América Latina y, al mismo tiempo, revisa la diversidad de contextos sociológicos que pueden explicar las distintas trayectorias de los ámbitos político e industrial de los siglos XIX a inicios del XXI.

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These papers are centered on the Crown of Aragon in the later Middle Ages, its achievements (the more remarkable given the very evident problems with which it was beset), and especially on its role in the Mediterranean. Hence the emphasis on Majorca, its leading intellectual figure, Ramon Lull (1232-1316), and his influence, and related to these the article on Thomas Aquinas. Other studies deal with the relations of Christians and Jews in Majorca, down to the Expulsion from Spain. In these papers Professor Hillgarth seeks to investigate the transmission of learning and how what is transmitted ...