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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 (...)

The League of Cambrai was an alliance formed in December 1508 by the main European powers with the purpose of halting the expansion of the Republic of Venice. The war that followed was one of the ongoing conflicts in what came to be known as the Italian Wars and was fought between 1508 and 1516. (...)

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 (...)

Una Vida Inmortal no es ni una novela ni un libro de ciencia ficción, ni siquiera uno de autoayuda. ¿De qué trata entonces? En primer lugar, ¡de usted!, querido lector; de su vida, de sus metas, de sus afanes y de sus ilusiones. Es un libro profundo, en ocasiones enigmático, que estaba destinado, (...)

A detailed study of the Battle of Narva, where Charles XII of Sweden defeated Peter the Great, showcasing new research and tactics.The Battle of Narva, in which Charles XII of Sweden defeated Peter the Great of Russia, occurred during the Great Northern War. Peter the Great's Disastrous Defeat (...)

Al igual que nosotros, también los hombres y mujeres del medievo estaban preocupados por envejecer, a veces les salían ampollas, sufrían indigestiones, se enamoraban y tenían hijos. Y, sin embargo, sus vidas estaban llenas de experiencias milagrosas y metafóricas radicalmente distintas de las (...)

¿Por qué, cómo y dónde enterramos a nuestros muertos?. ¿Cómo los recordamos?.Las pirámides de Guiza, las catacumbas de París y los cenotafios erigidos para los muertos del mundo son solo algunas de las respuestas. En esta fascinante historia cultural de los cementerios se exploran las formas, a (...)