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La danza de la muerte

et la santa campaña

El pintor y grabador Natalio Bayo nos ofrece una versión del tema clásico de la danza macabra o danza de la muerte, en una mezcla de imagen y poesía.

The return of Carvajal

a mystery

In 2017, the New York Times announced that the long-lost memoir of Luis de Carvajal the Younger had been rediscovered. Considered the first autobiography by a Jew in the Americas, the book had been stolen decades earlier from Mexico's National Archives. Here, Ilan Stavans ...

America's forgotten colonial history

This is what we all learned in school: Pilgrims on the Mayflower landed at Plymouth Rock in 1620. They had a rough start, but ultimately made a go of it, made friends with the Indians, and celebrated with a big Thanksgiving dinner. Other uptight religious ...

A short history of the American Civil War

The American Civil War (1861-65) remains a searing event in the collective consciousness of the United States. It was one of the bloodiest conflicts in modern history, claiming the lives of at least 600,000 soldiers and an unknown number of civilians and slaves. The ...

Old English Lives of Saints. Volume I

(Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library; 58)

Old English Lives of Saints, a series composed in the 990s by the Benedictine monk Aelfric in his distinctive alliterative prose, portrays an array of saints-including virgin martyrs, married virgins, aristocrats, kings, soldiers, and bishops-for a late Anglo-Saxon audience. At a turbulent time when England ...

The history of the kings of Britain: the first variant version

(Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library; 57)

Geoffrey of Monmouth's History of the Kings of Britain-the earliest work to detail the legendary foundation of Britain by Brutus the Trojan and the life of King Arthur-was among the most widely read books throughout the Middle Ages. Its sweeping account of the Britons ...

Old English Lives of Saints. Volume III

(Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library; 60)

Old English Lives of Saints, a series composed in the 990s by the Benedictine monk Aelfric in his distinctive alliterative prose, portrays an array of saints—including virgin martyrs, married virgins, aristocrats, kings, soldiers, and bishops—for a late Anglo-Saxon audience. At a turbulent time ...

Old English Lives of Saints. Volume II

(Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library; 59)

Old English Lives of Saints, a series composed in the 990s by the Benedictine monk Aelfric in his distinctive alliterative prose, portrays an array of saints—including virgin martyrs, married virgins, aristocrats, kings, soldiers, and bishops—for a late Anglo-Saxon audience. At a turbulent time ...

Allegories of the Odyssey

(Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library; 56)

Homer's Iliad and Odyssey were central to the educational system of Byzantium, yet the religion and culture of the Homeric epics-even the ancient Greek language itself-had become almost unrecognizable to Byzantine Greek readers coming to the texts nearly two millennia later. The scholar, poet ...

Empresses of Late Byzantium

foreign brides, mediators and pious women

With the exception of the wife of Andronikos III Palaiologos, Anna of Savoy, who acted as regent of Byzantium from 1341 to 1347, the lives of the late Byzantine empresses have so far received little scholarly attention. This study presents the biographies of all fifteen ...

The diplomacy of decolonisation

American, Britain and the United Nations during the Congo crisis 1960-1964

The book reinterprets the role of the UN during the Congo crisis from 1960 to 1964, presenting a multidimensional view of the organisation. Through an examination of the Anglo-American relationship, the book reveals how the UN helped position this event as a lightning rod in ...

Sailing school

navigating science and skill, 1550-1800

Throughout the Age of Exploration, European maritime communities bent on colonial and commercial expansion embraced the complex mechanics of celestial navigation. They developed schools, textbooks, and instruments to teach the new mathematical techniques to sailors. As these experts debated the value of theory and practice ...

The imperial families of Ancient Rome

Every Roman emperor, recognized or ephemeral, is here assembled with biographical and historical background & as complete a tabular record as possible of each family with brief biographical notes. The introduction guides readers through the events around the Empire's founding, Roman society, genealogical complexities and ...

La espiritualidad cristiana en la España del siglo XV

entre Corte y monasterio

La espiritualidad cristiana en la España del Siglo XV: entre corte y monasterios presenta la gran mística española como culminación de varias corrientes entrelazadas. El presente volumen explora el canon místico ibérico en un marco cronológico jalonado por los grandes acontecimientos históricos, sociales y culturales ...

Aspectos de la conquista y evangelización de América y Filipinas en los siglos XVI y XVII

Organización sociopolítica, religión y educación son matrices de las culturas americanas antes y después del contacto con los europeos. Una primera aproximación, “Naturales antes de la llegada de los españoles”, brinda una semblanza de la cosmovisión mexica. “Soldados, gobernantes y jueces” rotula aspectos relativos a ...

Actas de las V Jornadas de Heráldica y Vexilología Territoriales

Huesca, 18 y 19 de octubre de 2018

Actas de las V Jornadas de Heráldica y Vexilología Territoriales, organizadas por la Confederación española de Centros de Estudios Locales (CECEL), la Real Academia Matritense de Heráldica y Genealogía, Real Asociación de Hidalgos de España, Instituto Internacional de Genealogía y Heráldica y el Instituto de ...

El viaje a la luz

En la década de los cincuenta del siglo XX, mientras las democracias de medio mundo emprendían el viaje de reconstruirse moral y físicamente mirando para un futuro en paz y libertad, la dictadura española, fascista y nacional-católica, entraba en su segunda década de autarquía y ...

Fiscalidad internacional

Oro y patrón oro

Historia del oro como dinero: pasado, presente y futuro

Edwin Walter Kemmerer (1875-1945) fue uno de los grandes héroes anónimos del siglo XX. Profesor de economía en Princeton, fue conocido como el «médico del dinero» en el período de entreguerras, ayudando a diversos países a establecer y mantener monedas fuertes entre 1923 y 1933 ...

El proceso más breve ante el obispo en la nueva normativa del M.P. Mitis Iudex Dominus Iesus

su especialidad y pautas de desarrollo

El processus brevior coram Episcopo es una institución procesal nueva que viene a redescubrir una praxis presente en la Iglesia desde tiempos apostólicos: el ejercicio personal de la potestad judicial del Obispo. La reciente reforma implica aún más al Obispo en el ejercicio de la ...