Paisajes rituales y culturales desde la arqueología y la etnohistoria:

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Las vías de comunicación que se establecieron desde la antigüedad entre los continentes de Europa y Asia, conocidas como las "Rutas de la Seda", facilitaron la difusión de esta actividad manufacturera en la península Ibérica a partir de su conquista por el Islam en el siglo VIII. Sin embargo, fueron los comerciantes italianos que revitalizaron aquellas rutas a finales del siglo XIII los que más contribuyeron a su estímulo y renovación. Como España y Portugal protagonizaron posteriormente los descubrimientos geográficos y establecieron la comunicación directa por vía marítima con ...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute...

El interés de esta obra se debe fundamentalmente a que sólo comprendiendo la evolución y significado del Estado romano -principalmente en la época del Imperio bizantino- podemos entender el sentido cultural de Occidente y, en buena medida, del Oriente. Este estudio se extiende desde la fundación de la nueva Roma en el siglo IV, hasta su conquista por los cruzados en 1204.