Breve historia de Cosa Nostra

Prisciliano y el movimiento que se origino en torno a el perturbaron el occidente del imperio entre los siglos IV y VII, siendo el priscilianismo una de las principales herejias de la pars occidentis, y convirtiendose el heresiarca en una de las mas afamadas figuras del cristianismo, al acarrear la funesta gloria de ser el primer obispo juzgado y ejecutado por un tribunal civil. En el presente volumen, hemos analizado los datos que la arqueologia puede ofrecer a la hora de reconstruir la historia del priscilianismo y hemos abordado un analisis prosopografico para indagar acerca del status...

Para los mapuche su referencia geográfica es el Este, lugar donde nace el sol. Desde aquí debemos situarnos para comenzar a mirar y comprender el mundo y la vida en él. Para ellos, el territorio fundamento de su existencia: es vida, espiritualidad, pasado y presente, yo en los otros.

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...

A riveting, comprehensive history of the Arab people and tribes that explores the role of language as a cultural touchstone. This kaleidoscopic book covers almost 3,000 years of Arab history and shines a light on the footloose Arab people and tribes who conquered lands and disseminated their language and culture over vast distances. Tracing this process to the origins of the Arabic language, rather than the advent of Islam, Tim Mackintosh-Smith begins his narrative more than a thousand years before Muhammad and focuses on how Arabic, both spoken and written, has functioned as a vital source...