Al-Andalus was fully inserted into the economic world of Islam. This meant that the economy of Muslim Spain, unlike what was happening in the northern Christian territories, was highly dynamic. In this economy, the most significant feature stood out, the transcendental role played by cities, centers
The genocide of Pontic Hellenism - which since 1994 has been officially recognized by the Greek state with the declaration of May 19 as the Day of Remembrance of the Genocide of the Pontic Greeks - refers to the violent, massive, murderous events of the second and the beginning of the third decade o
Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar was an 11th century Castilian knight whom legend made the most outstanding hero of the Reconquest . He lived during the reigns of Fernando I of León, Sancho II of Castile and Alfonso VI of León and Castile. In the course of his military campaigns he managed to establish a solid
William Hogarth He was a British painter who cultivated several genres of painting:portraits, engravings, illustrations... But in this post we are going to stay with a series of satirical engravings called «The four stages of cruelty «. In this series of four engravings he represents the different