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La rebelión catalana de 1640 fue un acontecimiento capital en la Europa del siglo XVII. Sus antecedentes y sus causas -uno de los ejes de este magistral y clásico estudio- iluminan extraordinariamente la cuestión, largamente debatida, de la decadencia de España.
John H. Elliott perfila con trazo firme el progresivo deterioro de las relaciones entre el Principado de Cataluña y el gobierno de la monarquía en Madrid a lo largo de la primera mitad...
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Here is a collection of short prose that allows you to judge the multifaceted work of the writer. Poignant stories about human destinies, love and death, passion and loneliness, the mysterious past and the fantastic future, in which, sometimes, it is difficult to draw a line between reality and fiction, found their shelter in it. Romantic and philosophical, cheerful and creepy, they are all written in the unique handwriting of a master who never ceases...
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El objetivo de este libro es analizar el mundo de unas mujeres que no aceptaron enclaustrarse y que decidieron vivir solas o en comunidad con otras mujeres, manteniendo su libertad de movimientos y autonomía, pero sujetas a los superiores de las terceras órdenes religiosas en las que profesaron. Algunas fueron criticadas por su forma de vivir, pero la mayoría consiguieron el reconocimiento social en vida. Fueron utilizadas o se dejaron utilizar...
44) Martí de Viciana: Libro tercero de la Crónica de la ínclita y coronada ciudad de Valencia y de su
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En esta parte de su Crónica, editada el 1564, Martí de Viciana, doctorado en Derecho en Valencia, notario de la corte del alcalde y justicia de Burriana, elabora una descripción topográfica de las poblaciones valencianas. El historiador escribió su obra en catalán, pese a que la publicó en castellano. Se trata de uno de los testigos más importantes de la época de las Germanías.
45) El río morisco
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El problema principal, por no decir el único, que se plantea en este libro es el de la convivencia entre grupos de diferentes culturas. El autor expresa lo que le separa de Villanueva, de Juan Goytisolo y de la postura de Francisco Márquez, investigadores que comparten su punto de vista. Con todo el respeto hacia su inmensa obra y hacia su pensamiento generoso, Bernard Vincent afirma que el voluntarismo de estos autores falta a la realidad. Quieren...
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From Jeanne Kalogridis, the bestselling author of The Borgia Bride and The Scarlet Contessa, comes a tale of love, loss and treachery set during the perilous days of the Spanish Inquisition
1481 Seville: The Inquisition makes its first appearance in Spain. Its target: conversos, Christians of Jewish descent-specifically those who practice Judaism secretly in their homes. The penalty for "crypto-Judaism": Burning at the stake.
Marisol Garcia, a young...
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Step into the Elizabethan world of the extraordinary Giordano Bruno: a philosopher, a magician, a professor, a spy, an initiate in a pan-European secret society. In this vivid novel, meet kings and queens, court alchemists, great playwrights, scoundrels, and come to know the greatest minds of the Western European Renaissance. Engage with the esoteric spiritual practices of the art of memory, visualization, and mysticism. Enter into the secret societies...
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"The Last Days of Pompeii" - Pompeii, A.D. 79. Athenian nobleman Glaucus arrives in the bustling and gaudy Roman town and quickly falls in love with the beautiful Greek Ione. Ione's former guardian, the malevolent Egyptian sorcerer Arbaces, has designs on Ione and sets out to destroy their budding happiness. But will he succeed in his evil plot? Or, will the cataclysmic destruction of the city by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius be the end of all? And,...
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The year is 1632, five years after the Siege of La Rochelle where Louis XIII's forces, led by Cardinal Richelieu, triumphed over the Huguenot Rebellion.
After they surrendered, the Huguenot survivors were forced to swear allegiance to the French King. There were some, however, who would remain true to their cause and would always be rebels. Athos of the King's Musketeers, formerly the Comte de la Fere, makes the decision to infiltrate a group of...
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Travel back to the court of the French Renaissance!
Mingle with the royal court of France with the Cleves sisters. Now get the stories of each sister: Marie, Henriette, and Catherine, in a single volume.
Book One: Almost a Queen. Who wouldn't want to be Queen?
Cousins to the King of Navarre, the Cleves sisters witness the glamour and danger of the French royal court firsthand. Youngest sister, Marie is trapped in an unhappy arranged marriage with...
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It is London 1662, and plots abound against the king. Oliver Prior, haunted by the death of his sister when still a child, enters the world of espionage. Beatrice Short's goal is to go on stage, but she must work as a servant. While cleaning, she finds ciphers and invisible script. After the king's undersecretary finds her snooping, he blackmails her into going undercover as a spy.While Oliver and Beatrice bond to discover the backbone of insidious...
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Annie-Violet is a young servant girl working long hours at a big country house. She is happy there, but the young girls can sometimes, be at the mercy of unscrupulous menfolk at night. If they complain, they are often summarily, dismissed.
Then Annie-Violet suddenly discovers a secret, which shocks her to the core. She seeks help from her beloved Aunt Florrie, but her rebellious nature does not help the situation.
She has a crush on Frederick the...
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The powerful, raging second novel in The Venetians trilogy that tells of the bitter and enduring conflict between two powerful Italian noble families.
The Lion of St. Mark told the story of the deep-seated rivalry between the patrician Ziani and Soranzo families--a long history of hatred and strife that had passed from one generation to the next. In the end, the brave Antonio Ziani and the proud Giovanni Soranzo set aside their personal vendettas...
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Durante el siglo XIV, las estructuras políticas, fiscales y financieras de los estados que formaban la Corona de Aragón sufrieron una profunda transformación. Como consecuencia de esta, surgieron las diputaciones del General, llamadas más tarde en Valencia y Cataluña Generalitat. Este libro pretende explicar, por una parte, cómo era y cómo funcionaba durante el siglo XVI «el sistema fiscal» del que fue titular la Generalitat foral valenciana...
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My sight was always good. But color now takes on even greater riches. I no longer need the bright blues and reds, which I did so delight in when I was young. I see a hundred times more beauty now in a dark brown, or the pale tints of quiet flesh. Or a ray of light across a fur or a beaten earth floor or a suit of black armor. Such colors do not distract the eye, but rather let it concentrate on my forte, the human face. There I will have my theater,...
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Un viaje a través de la política, la sociedad y la cultura de los árabes desde los días del Imperio romano hasta la actualidad. La clave para entender el mundo árabe actual (y futuro) es comprender su pasado. McHugo revela cómo el mundo árabe llegó a ser lo que es hoy, por qué el cambio era inevitable, y qué podemos esperar después de la primavera árabe. Concisa, breve, útil y práctica, esta historia sirve también de guía sobre la...
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El estudio del municipio borbónico de Xàtiva y el proceso de su instauración y consolidación tras la Guerra de Sucesión permite conocer, desde la perspectiva del cambio político local, este periodo decisivo de la historia valenciana. De este modo, se aborda el desarrollo, a lo largo del Setecientos, de las nuevas instituciones borbónicas en Xàtiva, ahora San Felipe, como el corregimiento y ayuntamiento. Y ello a través de un pormenorizado...
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The Rebirth of Venus is the last part of The Botticelli Trilogy, following A Tabernacle for the Sun and Pallas and the Centaur. Set in the 1480s and 90s, it tells the story of murder, not only of the leading men of the age, but of the age itself, the Renaissance dying in Savonarola's bonfires. Tommaso de' Maffei was charged with the task of taking the Platonic wisdom to England, but in England he finds he has lost touch with the truth of his philosophy,...
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Al hilo del tiempo recoge los artículos publicados por el autor en los últimos treinta años, estructurados en torno a sus dos principales preocupaciones historiográficas: las Cortes, en especial las del Reino de Valencia, y la burocracia de la España Imperial. La primera parte sitúa las Cortes valencianas en el contexto de la península ibérica y de los parlamentos europeos, y se explican los momentos y circunstancias que llevaron al País...
60) Bedtrick
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Once a boy player in Shakespeare's company, Sander Cooke is now a hired man playing female roles. When Frances Field reveals she is pregnant by Sander's brother, Johnny, a fellow actor and aspiring playwright, Johnny makes it clear that marriage is not in his plans. But if Frances gives birth to a bastard, she'll lose her shop on London Bridge and her position as one of Queen Elizabeth's silkwomen. Sander would like to come to Frances' rescue: only...
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