Libros

"A sumptuous feast of a book." The Times, 21 Best History Books of 2021A publishing phenomenon in Europe, where it has sold 230,000 copies in hardback, Bart van Loo's epic history of the dukedom of Burgundy has the grip of a great historical novel and the fascination of a wonderful factual (...)

On 6 July 1495 a sudden gunshot came from the right bank of the Taro River in the Gerola Valley, near Fornovo (not far from Parma); shortly afterwards a sky full of clouds unleashed its fury on a wretched battlefield. That gunshot kicked off a battle which changed warfare and represented the (...)

In 1526, the army of the Hungarian kingdom was soundly defeated by the army of the Ottoman sultan, Suleiman the Magnificent, in the battle of Mohács. In the following decades the lands that were once part of the Hungarian Crown were divided. On the eastern half of the former Hungarian kingdom a new (...)

This book is the only dedicated study available in English that covers all of the armed factions that took part in the Wars of Religion as well as the whole period of these conflicts. It draws on contemporary French, Spanish and English accounts, as well as the best of more recent scholarship, to (...)

Silencios vestidos es la llave que abre la puerta a un importante campo de investigación del denominado arte textil, vinculado a las esculturas religiosas y perteneciente a la historia del arte y las artes decorativas. Esta publicación académica pretende reivindicar y poner en valor la indumentaria (...)

Este catálogo de exposición reúne obras de tres artistas románticos: los noruegos Peder Balke (1804-1887) y Lars Hertervig (1830-1902), y el español Eugenio Lucas Velázquez (1817-1870), ofreciendo un paralelo entre sus respectivos paisajes para mostrar cómo plasmaron sus visiones interiores de la (...)

Ce petit ouvrage présente de façon claire l'importance de la contribution des ingénieurs français à la conception et au développement des moteurs alternatifs à combustion interne.Illustré de nombreuses gravures et schémas, ce livre témoigne de la qualité de nos techniciens, bien souvent en avance (...)