Antonio Herrera y su Historia General del Mundo (volumen I)

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This study looks at the concepts of society, space, urbanism, expansion and organisation in the transition from Late Antiquity to the medieval period in Castile, Spain. Escalona reviews the evidence for the Iron Age and Roman antecedents in this area and details the history of fragmentation of the different territories within it, especially under the Visigoths and prior to the medieval period. Escalona discusses the development of a series of territories including Juarros, Carazo, Barbadillo and Salas, and focuses in particular on Lara which, by the middle of the 11th century, had become the...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute...

En plena Edad Media el rey don Alfonso XI muere víctima de la epidemia de peste que asola Europa. Con apenas dieciséis años, comienza a reinar don Pedro bajo la fuerte influencia de su madre, la reina doña María, que impone sus designios vengándose de doña Leonor de Guzmán y convirtiendo a don Juan Alfonso de Alburquerque en el privado y valido del nuevo rey. Alburquerque se hace con las riendas del gobierno de Castilla y cree que utilizando a María de Padillaconseguirá controlar la voluntad del joven monarca, pero los parientes de María de Padilla consiguen el favor de Pedro I y...