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Un pirata contra el capital

Un pirata oteando el horizonte, empapado de ron y ansioso de tesoros: en septiembre de 1695, el pirata inglés Henry Every, capitán del Fancy, atacó y se apoderó de un barco que regresaba a la India desde la Meca. Este acto, uno de los crímenes ...

Treinta años sin muro

una nueva Europa en la historia de la Democracia y de los Derechos Humanos

Treinta años sin Muro. Una nueva Europa en la historia de la Democracia y de los Derechos Humanos, es el resultado del Congreso Internacional que, con el objeto de analizar el impacto histórico, político, jurídico e institucional del final de la división de Alemania y ...

El hogar ártico en los Vedas

una nueva clave para la interpretación de textos y leyendas védicos

L. B. G. Tilak ha recopilado y estudiado en esta fascinante obra los testimonios de las tradiciones India e irania que reflejan de manera inequívoca a las condiciones físicas y climáticas de las regiones árticas, investigación que le llevó a plantear la hipótesis de que ...

La mirada de Argos

pequeño tratado constitucional de política española

Desde la sentencia del Tribunal Constitucional de 2010 sobre el Estatut catalán hasta la negativa del Parlamento de Cataluña a elegir a Miquel Iceta como senador en mayo de 2019; Ruiz Robledo agrupa en este libro setenta artículos publicados en el decenio 2010-2019 en la ...

RDA. Análisis teórico y aplicación práctica de la actual normativa catalográfica

En el año 2010 tiene lugar la publicación de las RDA (siglas en inglés de Resource Description and Access); tras un periodo de prueba se decide postergar su implementación definitiva a comienzos del año 2013. Será a partir de enero de 2019, cuando la Biblioteca ...

Los pueblos indios en la Nueva España, siglo XVIII. El impacto de las reformas borbónicas

El virreinato de la Nueva España era un territorio inmenso compuesto por una diversidad de culturas nativas e igualmente diversas entre sí. Esto dio pie a la formación de una multiplicidad de estructuras agrarias. Las normas dictadas desde el Consejo de Indias, si bien para ...

Glosario terminológico judicial francés-español: aclaraciones traductológicas

Errores y dificultades en su uso y traducción al español

Este glosario de términos judiciales francés-español es el resultado de una larga y profunda investigación, que nace a partir de una experiencia profesional en traducción jurídica y judicial de más de dos décadas y de las publicaciones previas de la autora. Pretende ser, ante todo ...

Tears of Bacchus

A history of wine in the arab world

Tears of Bacchus relates the story of wine in the Middle East, essentially Lebanon and Syria, from the dawn of time to the present day in the form of a linear series of essays written in various "voices" - historian, archaeologist, novelist, wine writer, journalist, curator ...

Bauman

A biography

Global thinker, public intellectual and world-famous theorist of 'liquid modernity', Zygmunt Bauman (1925-2017) was a scholar who, despite forced migration, built a very successful academic career and, after retirement, became a prolific and popular writer and an intellectual talisman for young people everywhere. He was ...

Appendix Ovidiana. Latin poems ascribed to Ovid in the Middle Ages

(Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library; 62)

When does imitation of an author morph into masquerade? Although the Roman writer Ovid died in the first century CE, many new Latin poems were ascribed to him from the sixth until the fifteenth century. Like the Appendix Vergiliana, these verses reflect different understandings of ...

Confronting crisis in the Carolingian Empire

Paschasius Radbertus' funeral oration for Wala of Corbie

This book presents a new translation of the Epitaphium Arsenii by Paschasius Radbertus (Radbert), a monk of Corbie. A daring defence of Charlemagne’s cousin Wala, onetime abbot of Corbie, the Epitaphium is about ideals of religious and political leadership, articulated by an author who ...

Miscellanies. Volume I

(The I Tatti Renaissance Library; 89)

Angelo Poliziano (1454-1494) was one of the great scholar-poets of the Italian Renaissance and the leading literary figure of Florence in the age of Lorenzo de' Medici, "il Magnifico." The poet's Miscellanies, including a "first century" published in 1489 and a "second century" unfinished ...

Miscellanies. Volume 2

(The I Tatti Renaissance Library; 90)

Angelo Poliziano (1454-1494) was one of the great scholar-poets of the Italian Renaissance and the leading literary figure of Florence in the age of Lorenzo de' Medici, "il Magnifico." The poet's Miscellanies, including a "first century" published in 1489 and a "second century" unfinished ...

How shoud democracies fight terrorism?

In the wake of major terrorist attacks, calls for ever more draconian policies to prevent further outrages are common. Such responses raise the pressing question: is it possible to effectively fight terrorism while respecting democratic values of equality and trust? Examining recent examples of terrorist ...

The field of cloth of gold

Glenn Richardson provides the first history in more than four decades of a major Tudor event: an extraordinary international gathering of Renaissance rulers unparalleled in its opulence, pageantry, controversy, and mystery. Throughout most of the late medieval period, from 1300 to 1500, England and France ...

Shields of the republic

The triumph and peril of America's alliances

Is America's alliance system so quietly effective that politicians and voters fail to appreciate its importance in delivering the security they take for granted? For the first century and a half of its existence, the United States had just one alliance-a valuable but highly ...

On morals or concerning education

(Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library; 61)

On Morals or Concerning Education is an exhortation on the importance of education by the prolific late-Byzantine author and statesman Theodore Metochites (1270-1332), who rose to the aristocracy from a middle-class background but fell from favor late in life and died as a monk. As ...

Anonymous old english lives of saints

(Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library; 63)

From the first centuries of Christianity, believers turned to the perfection modeled by saints for inspiration, and a tradition of recounting saints’ Lives flourished. The Latin narratives followed specific forms, dramatizing a virgin’s heroic resolve or a martyr’s unwavering faith under torture. In ...

Inky fingers

The making of books in Early Modern Europe

From Francis Bacon to Barack Obama, thinkers and political leaders have denounced humanists as obsessively bookish and allergic to labor. In this celebration of bookmaking in all its messy and intricate detail, renowned historian Anthony Grafton invites us to see the scholars of early modern ...

The true history of Merlin the magician

Merlin the Magician has remained an enthralling and curious individual since he was first introduced in the twelfth century though the pages of Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Historia Regum Britanniae. But although the Merlin of literature and Arthurian myth is well known, Merlin the "historical ...