Armas Para La República: La Aventura del Mar Cantábrico

En esta obra, Christopher Dawson se propone dar una visión panorámica de la vida sociocultural de Occidente durante el milenio que transcurre entre la caída del Imperio romano y el Renacimiento italiano. Para Dawson, esta etapa, conocida como Edad Media o Edad Oscura, es el periodo donde se desarrolla un proceso sociocultural que comienza por el encuentro del cristianismo con las culturas de los pueblos bárbaros de Europa para llegar a conformar la cultura cristiana.

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Aquesta és la biografia de l’home que va aterrir la cristiandat hispànica cap a l’any mil: Muhammad ibn Abi Amir, conegut com Almansor. El llibre tracta d’explicar com es va convertir en el veritable amo d’un califat omeia l’autoritat del qual s’estenia per al-Andalus i el Magrib occidental, per què va sembrar el terror entre els cristians i per quins motius va desaparèixer tan bruscament la dinastia que havia fundat. Per fer-ho, reviu les expedicions empreses en nom de la guerra santa i els problemes que van afectar Còrdova a l'inici del segle XI. Lluny de ser una simple...

Excerpt from An Historical Text Book and Atlas of Biblical Geography History without Geography is incomplete and unsatisfactory. The duty of the historian is, not only to record the events of his narrative, with their causes and consequences, but to sketch the attending scenes and circumstances, so as to present a clear and living picture of tho whole. For this purpose Geography comes to the aid of History, to delineate the scenery of the historical narrative, to describe the city or country where the event recorded transpired, to depict the mountain, plain, or valley, the ocean, sea, or...