Elaboración y transmisión de los saberes históricos

Un viaje apasionante por la historia del amor en la época de los trovadores que muestra cómo vivían las personas este sentimiento. Tristán e Isolda, Eloísa y Abelardo... El amor fue una inspiración divina para los autores de la Edad Media. Los trovadores proponían un nuevo arte de amar y elaboraron un “mapa de la ternura”. Las obras literarias de la época nos hablan del amor, sin olvidar la sexualidad, puesto que los vecinos árabes poseían una cultura refinada del arte amoroso y todo esto terminó influyendo enormemente a sus contemporáneos medievales. Aunque, para la Iglesia,...

This Historical Atlas of Spain is an enjoyable and accessible guide that begins in the first millennium BC and ends in the 21st century. With a very tight narrative approach, it synthesizes the political, social, economic, and cultural development of Spain with numerous maps, photographs and illustrations that help us understand what we were and where we have arrived. The breadth of the topics covered, as well as its expositional precision, makes it an indispensable tool for the study of our history.

The abolition of judicial torture—alongside the eradication of both slavery and capital punishment—was one of the most consequential issues debated in eighteenth-century continental Europe. A revealing component of this controversial debate was presented in the unpublished "Discurso sobre la injusticia del apremio judicial," written by the attorney Pedro Garcia del Canuelo. Seeking support for its publication, he forwarded the manuscript to Prime Minister Manuel Godoy in 1795. The savvy Spanish politician, however, not only rejected the text but also warned its author against further...

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