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Napoleonic Plunder in Spain (Part I)

Background: Collecting and growing interest in Spanish masters Since ancient times, people have desired to possess objects and works of art …

More and more studies are emerging regarding women in all fields of History, including what is known as Political New History. The relations…

After the outbreak of the Glorious Revolution in 1868, Isabella II was exiled to France along with all her offspring. There she would attemp…

Introduction The beginning of the Reconquista on the Iberian Peninsula is widely known as a consequence of the breakup of the Visigothic kin…

Excommunication was the act of separating someone from communion and the fellowship or relationship with other people of the same Christian …

Introduction In the first part of this article, we discussed the concept of cultural heritage, a term that encompasses all those tangible an…

We have to go back to historically pagan societies like those of Egypt, Greece, and Rome to approach the origin of what we now know as carni…

In a previous article, we discussed Caesarion, the eldest son of Cleopatra and, had circumstances been different, also the eldest son of Jul…

In the Europe we live in today, electricity has become an indispensable part of life. Beyond economic fluctuations, access to it is truly ea…

In the second part of this series of articles, we left pending an analysis of why some of these towers lack coherence in terms of both siege…

In the first part we defined the characteristics of tower houses, how they have been treated by historiography and more recently by archaeol…

This series of articles aims to define the feudal tower house and its historical context, followed by an exploration of their effects on the…