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Mediterranean Studies is an interdisciplinary annual concerned with the ideas and ideals of Mediterranean cultures from Late Antiquity to the Enlightenment and their influence beyond these geographical and temporal boundaries. Topics concerning any aspect of the history, literature, politics, arts, geography, or any subject focused on the Mediterranean region in any period of history can be found in this journal.

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With its 27 contributions, this volume presents most of the papers delivered at the "XVe Colloque du Comite International de Paleographie". The conference's focus was regional and supra-regional influences on the development of Latin script from late antiquity and the early medieval period to the beginning of modern times. The geographic area considered in the articles spans the Iberian Peninsula and Central Europe to Iceland. In their contributions, the authors have attempted to show the impact that not only local conditions but also European cultural and intellectual centres had on the...

Aquella “injusticia” que sintetiza el final de Simón Bolívar: “murió pobre y con camisa prestada”, es tan conocida como insospechada y oculta su faceta de empresario y defensor a ultranza de la propiedad privada. A través de la correspondencia personal del Libertador, el doctor Antonio Herrera-Vaillant devela a un hombre con extraordinarias habilidades para los negocios y tenaz protector del patrimonio familiar. El autor se apoya en documentos históricos para demostrar que Bolívar supo incrementar su fortuna y la de su familia llevando ventas y rentas estratégicas para la...