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Alfonso I el Batallador, Urraca I de León, Obispo Diego Gelmírez

La unión de los reinos de Aragón y Castilla, gracias al matrimonio entre los reyes Fernando e Isabel, resultó fundamental para poner fin a la Reconquista. Pero quizá muchos no sepan que casi ¡cuatro siglos antes! ya se habían unido la mayor parte de los ...

La guerra aérea

máquinas de guerra (durante la SGM)

La aviación militar alcanzó su madurez en la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Tanto en tierra como en el mar, el poder aéreo fue la baza decisiva y constituyó la clave de las formidables victorias iniciales de Alemania y Japón, y de su posterior aplastamiento.

José Ortega y Gasset

Penseur de l'Europe

Auteur mondialement connu de La Révolte des masses, José Ortega y Gasset (1883-1955) n'avait à ce jour étrangement pas bénéficié en France d'une biographie ou d'une monographie substantielle. Voici qui est désormais chose faite avec cette somme magistrale soigneusement contextualisée et documentée ...

Spies and scholars

Chinese secrets and Imperial Russia's quest for world power

Beginning in the seventeenth century, Russian officials made a concerted effort to collect information about the Qing dynasty in China. From diplomatic missions in the Forbidden City to remote outposts on the border, Russian spies and scholars collected trade secrets, recipes for porcelain, and gossip ...

Philosophical Orations. Volume I

(The Loeb Classical Library; 553)

A Platonic evangelist's lectures on the good life. Maximus of Tyre, active probably in the latter half of the second century AD, was a devoted Platonist whose only surviving work consists of forty-one brief addresses on various topics of ethical, philosophical, and theological import ...

Philosophical Orations. Volume II

(The Loeb Classical Library; 554)

A Platonic evangelist's lectures on the good life. Maximus of Tyre, active probably in the latter half of the second century AD, was a devoted Platonist whose only surviving work consists of forty-one brief addresses on various topics of ethical, philosophical, and theological import ...

Medical writings from early medieval England. Vol. 1 : the Old English Herbal, Lacnunga, and other texts

(Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library; 81)

The first comprehensive edition and translation of Old English writings on health and healing in more than 150 years. Unlike elsewhere in Europe, vernacular writings on health and healing had a major place in early medieval England. These texts-unique local remedies and translations of late ...

Jewel of the Soul. Volume II

(Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library; 80)

The first complete translation into a modern language of a major authority on the medieval Christian liturgy.Honorius Augustodunensis's Jewel of the Soul (the Gemma animae) gleams as one of the most attractive liturgical commentaries from the twelfth century. A lively and effective teacher ...

Jewel of the Soul. Volume I

(Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library; 79)

The first complete translation into a modern language of a major authority on the medieval Christian liturgy. Honorius Augustodunensis's Jewel of the Soul (the Gemma animae) gleams as one of the most attractive liturgical commentaries from the twelfth century. A lively and effective teacher ...

Saints at the Limits: Seven Byzantine Popular Legends

(Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library; 78)

A collection of medieval tales of Byzantine saints, including some rejected by the Church, translated into English for the first time. The legends collected in Saints at the Limits, despite sometimes being viewed with suspicion by the Church, fascinated Christians during the Middle Ages-as related ...

Life of the Virgin Mary

(Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library; 77)

The first complete, modern translation of one of the most important Byzantine works of Marian doctrine and devotion. John Geometres (ca. 935-ca. 1000) was one of the most highly esteemed poets and authors in Byzantium; yet his most important text, the Life of the Virgin ...

The op-ed novel

a literary history of post-Franco Spain

A new history of contemporary Spanish fiction through the prism of novelists' newspaper columns. Public intellectuals come in many different stripes, but most of them gain a following at least in part from their writing, whether in the form of magazine articles, newspaper columns, or ...

The tame and the wild

people and animals after 1492

A dramatic new interpretation of the encounter between Europe and the Americas that reveals the crucial role of animals in the shaping of the modern world. When the men and women of the island of Guanahani first made contact with Christopher Columbus and his crew ...

A marvelous solitude

the art of reading in early modern Europe

A preeminent Renaissance scholar illuminates early modern encounters with books, in which literature became a portal to self-awareness and miraculous communion between author and reader. The experience of reading is often presented as personal and transformative-a journey of self-discovery and, perhaps, renewal. In A Marvelous ...

How to focus

a monastic guide for an age of distraction

How you can learn to focus like a monk without living like one Distraction isn't a new problem. We're also not the first to complain about how hard it is to concentrate. Early Christian monks beat us to it. They had given up ...

Post-imperial possibilities

Eurasia, Eurafrica, Afroasia

A history of three transnational political projects designed to overcome the inequities of imperialism After the dissolution of empires, was the nation-state the only way to unite people politically, culturally, and economically? In Post-Imperial Possibilities, historians Jane Burbank and Frederick Cooper examine three large-scale, transcontinental ...

Los Estados de Bienestar en la encrucijada

políticas sociales en perspectiva comparada

El Estado de Bienestar es uno de los logros más significativos de los Estados modernos por su capacidad de proteger a los ciudadanos contra la pobreza cuando se encuentran en situaciones de riesgo tales como la enfermedad, el desempleo, la vejez, la niñez o la ...

Las concesiones de dominio público portuario en la legislación estatal de puertos

La concesión demanial es una institución clásica del Derecho Administrativo, pero de gran relevancia en el dominio público portuario, especialmente a raíz de la Ley 48/2003, de 26 de noviembre, de régimen económico y de prestación de servicios de los puertos de interés general ...

Vulgarizar y traducir

idea y terminología de la traducción desde la Edad Media hasta el Humanismo

Volgarizzare y tradurre, el gran ensayo de Folena sobre traducc¡ón, denso y complejo, rico en erudición, ideas y problemas, ha dado a los estudios de traductología una novedosa perspectiva de investigación diacrónica, firmemente arraigada en una visión del tradurre como actividad esencial, como vía ...

Una vida sobria para la revolución

Hardcore punk, straight edge y políticas radicales

El Straight Edge ha resistido a lo largo de las últimas décadas como una cultura hardcore punk libre de drogas. Sin embargo, su legado político permanece a menudo ambiguamente asociado con una soberbia postura machista autorreferencial y con un puritanismo conservador. A pesar de que ...