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"Although it has a rich historiography, and from the late ninth century is rich in textual evidence, northern Iberia has barely featured in the great debates of early medieval European history of recent generations. Lying beyond the Frankish world, in a peninsula more than half controlled by Muslims, Spanish and Portuguese experience has seemed irrelevant to the Carolingian Empire and the political fragmentation (or realignment) that followed it. But Spain and Portugal shared the late Roman heritage which influenced much of Western Europe in the early Middle Ages and by the tenth century political practice in the Christian North had plenty of features in common with parts to the east"--Provided by publisher

Klappentext: La historia española de la segunda mitad del siglo XX está marcada en los transportes aéreos por la existencia y la actividad de la aerolínea Iberia. Este libro constituye la primera historia empresarial de Iberia, la aerolínea española por antonomasia. Dos elementos destacados de la primera época de Iberia fueron la utilización como un instrumento del régimen franquista en su política de relaciones internacionales y el fuerte crecimiento que experimentó por el aumento del turismo durante los sesenta. La nueva España democrática y su transformación económica y social contemporánea también se reflejan en la trayectoria más reciente de la aerolínea, como la liberalización del mercado aéreo europeo e internacional; la creciente concurrencia de las aerolíneas de bajo coste y la privatización del capital de las compañías aéreas de titularidad pública.

"Taking the Jewish community as a focal point, this book thoroughly explores the various "borders" geographical divides, religious affiliations, gender boundaries, genre divisions that ruled the lives and intellectual production of late medieval Jews"--

"Women and Community in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia draws on recent research to underscore the various ways in which women influenced and contributed to their communities, engaging with a broader academic discussion of women's agency and cultural impact in the Iberian peninsula"--