Rafael Nieto

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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...

Este trabajo propone revelar el desarrollo de dos bibliotecas victorianas, la "Biblioteca de Recreo" en el English Club of Rio Tinto en Minas de Riotinto (Huelva, España) y la biblioteca en el "Clube do Pessoal da Empresa Mason and Barry Ltd." en Mina de Santo Domingos (Mértola, Portugal). Estas se ubicaron en dos enclaves británicos mineros fuera de las fronteras de su Imperio, en la conocida Faja Pirítica Ibérica en el periodo en el que los británicos se establecieron en Minas de Santo Domingos (1858-1966) en el Alentejo portugués y Minas de Riotinto (1873-1954) en Huelva. La...