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, (...)

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 Nine Years War (1593-1603), sometimes known as Tyrone's Rebellion, was one of the most devastating and brutal conflicts to sweep the island. Never would the English Crown come so close to losing its grip on Ireland. It was brought on by a combination of English misrule, Irish ambition and the (...)