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Legitimizing the Queen deals with a genre particular to the Middle Ages: the specula principum (mirror of prince). Its importance as an object of study may be understood in light of the political instability that wracked the Castilian fifteenth century. The many works written for and dedicated to Isabel I of Castile depict her kingdom as a shipwrecked boat, a wayward realm, and a land of bankrupt people. These works suggest the kingdom's need for redemption through the strong leadership of theCatholic monarchs. These largely propagandistic works were designed to garner power, and once maintained, further Isabel's agenda. This book frames the concept of sovereignty from the theoretical perspe...
Para el grupo de investigación en Derecho Internacional de la Facultad de Jurisprudencia de la Universidad del Rosario y los editores de este libro, es un gusto presentar a la comunidad académica esta nueva obra que recoge los mejores trabajos presentados en el IV Congreso de Derecho Internacional, realizado en abril del 2022, el cual contó con la participación de conferencistas del más alto nivel representando 14 nacionalidades. Los mejores escritos de investigación del llamado a contribuciones fueron seleccionados para la presente obra, sometida a evaluación de pares y que refleja el diálogo y desarrollo temático del Congreso. La primera sección del libro está dedicada al derech...
Stone is one of the oldest building materials, and its conservation ranks as one of the most challenging in the field. The use of alkoxysilanes in the conservation of stone can be traced as far back as 1861, when A. W. von Hoffman suggested their use for the deteriorating limestone on the Houses of Parliament in London. Alkoxysilane-based formulations have since become the material of choice for the consolidation of stone outdoors.^l This volume, the first to cover comprehensively alkoxysilanes in stone consolidation, synthesizes the subject's vast and extensive literature, which ranges from production of alkoxysilanes in the nineteenth century to the extensive contributions from sol-gel sci...
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The Getty Museum's collection of drawings was begun in 1981 with the purchase of a Rembrandt nude and has since become an important repository of European works from the fifteenth through the nineteenth century. As in the first volume devoted to the collection (published in 1988 in English and Italian editions), the text is here organized first by national school, then alphabetically by artist, with individual works arranged chronologically. For each drawing, the authors provide a discussion of the work's style, dating, iconography, and relationship to other works, as well as provenance and a complete bibliography.
A TODAY SHOW #ReadWithJenna BOOK CLUB PICK NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A coming-of-age classic about a young girl growing up in Chicago • Acclaimed by critics, beloved by readers of all ages, taught in schools and universities alike, and translated around the world—from the winner of the 2019 PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature. “Cisneros draws on her rich [Latino] heritage...and seduces with precise, spare prose, creat[ing] unforgettable characters we want to lift off the page. She is not only a gifted writer, but an absolutely essential one.” —The New York Times Book Review The House on Mango Street is one of the most cherished novels of the last fifty years...
¿Era Hitler vegetariano? ¿Por qué tiene cuernos el Moisés de Miguel Ángel? ¿Es rusa la ensaladilla rusa? ¿Murió Catalina la Grande fornicando con un caballo? ¿Construyeron los aliens las Pirámides? ¿Por qué no comen cerdo los musulmanes? ¿Quemó Nerón Roma? ¿Creó Franco una bomba atómica? ... Este libro plantea 333 preguntas históricas como estas de todas las temáticas —guerra, ciencia, sexo, comida, política, economía y, por supuesto, «Homeohistoria», entre otras—y, por si fuera poco, incluye las respuestas a la mayoría de ellas. El libro de consultas históricas que todo hogar debería tener. Mejor que la Enciclopedia, mejor que Wikipedia.