Kategoria BISAC: History >> Europe - Spain

In this research, based on numismatic findings collected over time and compiled by many researchers, the author aims to present as thorough a study as possible of the Iberian mints located in the Hispania Ulterior province. The purpose of this inquiry is not merely the collection of numismatic material and its documentation. On the contrary, the author hopes to establish different patterns of the 'behaviour' of currency in circulation, and to try and find solutions through numismatics to some historical problems present today.

This rugged new translation--the first entirely new English translation in half a century and the only one based on the most recent critical edition of the Guatemalan MS--allows Diaz to recount, in his own battle-weary and often cynical voice, the achievements, stratagems, and frequent cruelty of Hernando Cortes and his men as they set out to overthrow Moctezuma's Aztec kingdom and establish a Spanish empire in the New World.

The concise contextual introduction to this volume traces the origins, history, and methods of the Spanish enterprise in the Americas; it also discusses the nature...

This work focuses on the region northeast of the province of Segovia, a transition area between the hills of the Sistema Central and the sedimentary basin of the Douro River, and documents a virtually unknown area from the archaeological point of view. The origin of the work derives from two investigations intending to work towards the Segovia Provincial Archaeological Inventory, and includes material from the Bronze Age to Roman periods.

Calder?n and the Baroque Tradition is the outcome of a tricentennial commemoration of the seventeenth century Spanish poet and dramatist, Pedro Calder?n de la Barca, and a tribute to a distinguished tradition in Calderonian studies at the University of Toronto.

A major dramatist of the Spanish Golden Age and a master of the auto sacramental genre, Calder?n produced some one hundred and twenty comedias and eighty autos during his rather colourful lifetime.

This volume assembles an impressive collection of essays relating the baroque artistic...

Only, it's not quite that simple. Spanish soccer expert and historian Sid Lowe covers 100 years of rivalry, athletic beauty, and excellence. Fear and Loathing in La Liga is a nuanced,...