Libros

Formas, tipos y estilos son los conceptos más habituales a la hora de estudiar la historia de la arquitectura, pero esta también puede abordarse desde la energía, el clima, los recursos materiales y la experiencia corporal. Tal es el propósito de esta " Historia medioambiental de la arquitectura " (...)

Urbs regia del reino visigodo, corazón de un reino taifa, referente de la Reconquista, ciudad de muchas culturas, rebelde e imperial en un mismo siglo, baluarte de las artes y las letras y cabeza religiosa del reino.Desde los primeros asentamientos a orillas del Tajo, como el del Cerro del Bú, (...)

The Battle of Rocroi (19 May 1643) is famous for the French victory over the Spanish Tercios. The Duc d'Enghien, only 21 years old, defeated a Spanish army commanded by Francisco de Melo. The victory has traditionally been attributed to the military genius of the young Duke, to the superiority of (...)

Due to its successes against Austria in the first two Silesian Wars and the Seven Years War, the Prussian army is considered to have been Europe's best in the middle of the eighteenth century. Yet half a century later the once-mighty forces of Frederick the Great were crushed on the fields of Jena (...)

In the early seventeenth century the Principality of Transylvania was a new state, organized in the decades that followed the dissolution of the medieval Kingdom of Hungary, towards the middle of the sixteenth century. The rulers of Transylvania were vassals of the Ottoman Empire but enjoyed a (...)

The Battle of Lens marked the climax of a decade-long war between France and Spain. Both nations were exhausted after years of conflict across Spain, France, Flanders, Italy, and Germany. The struggle would culminate in a pitched battle near the city of Lens, Flanders, in the summer of 1648.By (...)

Oda Nobunaga was Japan's great military genius and the nation's first to envisage a unified Japan. Long vilified by historians as a cruel and ruthless despot, he remains one of the most controversial figures in Japanese history a man whose strategic brilliance and military prowess are his only (...)