Estudios sobre la Europa Oriental

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This academic book explores the life and contributions of Pedro Sánchez de la Hoz, a sixteenth-century Spanish merchant, conquistador, and adelantado. As secretary to Pizarro during the conquest of Peru, Sánchez de la Hoz wrote a firsthand account of the Spanish conquest of Peru and Incan ethnography, which is presented here, and includes some of the most significant campaigns in the colonization of the Americas, which was led by conquistador Francisco Pizarro, his brothers, and indigenous allies. This conquest paved the way for the establishment of the Viceroyalty of Peru and spin-off...

La economia y el comercio; la indumentaria y los usos; la organizacion social, politica y sacerdotal; la literatura y la escritura; la medicina; la idea del tiempo y la historia; las matematicas, la astronomia y la cronologia; la religion, la cosmologia y la cosmogonia; lo ritual; la arquitectura, la pintura y la escultura... el universo Maya, simplemente.

El triunfo de la pólvora plantea una aproximación multidisciplinar a la historia bajomedieval de la artillería pirobalística. Interesan el armamento en sí mismo y su utilización, estudiados tanto a partir de la iconografía como de los testimonios historiográficos y documentales; pero también, los artífices de las piezas, el modo en que se organizaban sus funciones y su producción, e incluso sus trayectorias biográficas y personales. Y, por supuesto, se analizan los cambios experimentados por las fortificaciones para integrar y hacer frente al arma de fuego. El reino de Castilla,...