In 1914, no European leader wants war, but everyone is convinced that the others love her. The announcement of the attack in Sarajevo it does not arouse any special impression in Europe; and Belgium is no different. The death of Franz Ferdinand, the inheriting archduke of the Habsburgs, does not con
Europes first and oldest royal and secular order of chivalry, the Order of Saint George , was founded by the Angevin King of Hungary, Charles I , in 1326. Although its founding charters have been preserved to this day – or an updated version of them – with its great seal, we know hardly anything abo
And it is false for several reasons. Firstly, because the fact that Balduino IV (reg. 1174-85) was a leper does not mean that he was incapable, or that his generals were. As for Saladin , we must remember that he had to sustain 30 years of constant wars to strengthen his power and create the necessa
At the height of the revolt, up to 300,000 peasants would have been involved. In Württemberg, for example, about 70% of the men capable of bearing arms joined the rebellion, which ignited from Alsace in the west to Salzburg in the east, through the Tyrol, and from the Swiss Alps in the south to hear
But the illustration has also been used from the second half of the 20th century –and it is widely recognized today– in the field of quality teaching, museography and historical dissemination, being the series of magazines Desperta Ferro an outstanding example in this sense on which it is not necess
Unequally both were distorted by the Cidian tradition . Alfonso VI became a mediocre, envious, self-conscious and minor king, turned into a paradigm of a disloyal, manipulable and obtuse king. Álvar Fáñez would be gobbled up by the Minaya from the Song of Mio Cid , epic archetype of the subordinate
Its launch power compensated for its slow reload speed compared to the traditional bow (see The English longbow versus the Genoese crossbow in Desperta Ferro Antigua y Medieval #32:The Hundred Years War I ) and its apparently simple mechanism made it easy to use and maintain, so the soldier did not
For many years, the group responsible for the part army of Augusta Raurica, the Legio XI CPF of Switzerland, has been in charge of selecting those who, in their opinion, are the best and most serious re-enactors in Europe to participate in a weekend that undoubtedly leaves no one indifferent. Offici
However, neither of the two works can be considered as historical, but rather set in a historical era, which is not the same thing. The historical comic as such was born and consolidated in the Franco-Belgian sphere in the 1970s and 1980s, highlighting, in my opinion, the works of Hermann with the s
Don Alonso Pérez de Guzmán y Sotomayor He was born on September 1, 1549 in Sanlúcar de Barrameda. In 1556 his father, Don Juan Clarós de Guzmán, died, and he became Count of Niebla, being a minor. Two years later his grandfather, Don Juan Alonso Pérez de Guzmán, died and he became Duke of Medina S
Largely from an overly literal reading of the sources, but also of the use that has been made of these texts in art and contemporary popular culture, especially in the cinema. The works referring to the lives of the emperors, from Suetonius to Tacitus, Dion Cassius or the authors of the Augusta Hist
In the year 1589 Elizabeth I of England sent a Punishment expedition to Spain for the attack of the Gran Armada, a Counterarmada led by Francis Drake and John Norris . The expedition exceeded a hundred ships and more than twenty thousand men. His objective was to attack Santander, where the ships th
We could place the germ of the War of Reform in the American intervention of 1846. The young American army managed to defeat the Mexican in a series of decisive battles. The defeat in the war produced great discomfort in Mexico, since it meant the loss of important territories in the north, approxim
At the end of the War of the Spanish Succession, Felipe V he had had to give up his Italian possessions (Sardinia, Sicily, Naples, Milan and the Presidios of Tuscany) as part of the price to be recognized as king of Spain and the Indies. However, he never resigned himself to the loss of it and aspir
From the far reaches of North Africa to the far east, beyond the Oxus River, the Abbasid caliphate had to maintain a difficult pulse with the new powers. How did they deal with your arrival? How did they defend their own dynasty? How did they survive even against stronger rivals? We will see in the
It is difficult to differentiate myth from reality when we speak of the Cathars. We know them, basically, from outside sources, since their word was diluted in the persecution. Thus, his image comes to us through inquisitorial sources and, above all, through the romanticized and fictionalized image
Needless to say, the worst of all is not have premiered. In this case, finding yourself in your thirties and not being able to remember something because you have never done it is already more than worrying. Opportunities have not lacked you since you were very young, but you never took the step, wi
Dear readers, this week we find ourselves immersed in the Black Friday, a few days (increasingly) dedicated to shopping with more and more implantation all over the world. As in the two previous campaigns, we offer you a different possibility:the III Human Friday against hunger . In it we will alloc
We are pleased to invite you to the presentation of El Cid. History and myth of a warlord , which will take place at the Marcial Pons bookstore (Pl. del Conde del Valle de Súchil, 8) on Tuesday, December 10 at 7:00 p.m. . There we will have the presence of its author, David Porrinas González, resear
The Schlachten-Atlas zur antiken Kriegsgeschichte , the Atlas of Battles of Antiquity by Johannes Kromayer and Georg Veith , published in six volumes between 1922 and 1929, remains the magnum opus on the mapping of the battlefields of the ancient world. Kromayer, a philologist and historian, and Vei
The city of Granada from the Alhambra Palace, residence of the Nasrid kings from the 13th to the 15th century • ISTOCK We owe to Ibn Khaldûn, Arab thinker of the XIVth century, an original theory on empires. According to him, the only way to create wealth is to accumulate it by raising taxes. An
United Provinces of Central America , Spanish Provinces Unidas De Centro-américa (1823–40), Union of modern-day states Guatemala , Honduras , El Salvador , Costa Rica and Nicaragua . Read more about this topic Central America:The United Provinces (1823–40) A Liberal-domin
The world is nothing but a wonder that has too many wonderful things in its pockets that make us wonder how and where it all began. When you come to the wonderful things in this world, have you ever wondered how we invented a way of expressing our thoughts and feelings? Have you ever thought about h
When researcher Charlotte Pearson examined a palm-sized piece of ancient tree, she noted that one of the rings seemed unusually small. Three years later, and armed with new methodology and technology, she discovered that this ring could mark the year that the volcano of Tera (the Greek island of San