Cervantes - History Lab https://historylab.es Tue, 10 Jan 2023 13:40:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://historylab.es/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-icono-historylab-32x32.jpg Cervantes - History Lab https://historylab.es 32 32 Repository of the illustrations of “Don Quixote” (1605-2019) https://historylab.es/repository-of-the-illustrations-of-don-quixote-1605-2019/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=repository-of-the-illustrations-of-don-quixote-1605-2019 Tue, 12 Apr 2022 18:23:34 +0000 https://historylab.es/repositorio-de-las-ilustraciones-de-el-quijote-1605-2019/ Digital repository that compiles and stores all the illustrations of Don Quixote according to year of publication, place and author

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]]> Website that brings together, in its “Collection and Digital Archive” section, the collection of illustrations that appeared published in the books of Don Quixote from the year of its first publication (1605) to the first editions of the 21st century. The wide spatio-temporal range displayed in the cataloguing of the repository includes traditional works and more current formats such as comics. The initial table shows the year of publication, the place, the author and a brief description of the prints. In addition, clicking on the images shows the illustrations contained in the edition.

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]]> Means of transport in the 16th and 17th centuries https://historylab.es/means-of-transport-in-the-16th-and-17th-centuries/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=means-of-transport-in-the-16th-and-17th-centuries Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:34:35 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/medios-de-transporte-en-los-siglos-xvi-y-xvii/ Access to the collaborative blog of IES Miguel Catalán to celebrate the IV Centenary of Miguel de Cervantes where the different means of transport in the 16th and 17th centuries are explained

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]]> Collaborative blog of IES Miguel Catalán to celebrate the IV Centenary of Miguel de Cervantes where different topics are explained. Among them, we have this short article about the different means of transport in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. With the beginning in the 16th century of the post office service linking the places where the Spanish Court resided with the main European urban centres, this post office service was extended to other Spanish cities. The conditions of the terrain and other conditioning factors such as the capacity of the horses would play an important role in the development of what we can call the first “taxis” in history.

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