Civilización griega

Viajar a la antigua Grecia significa imaginarnos cómo habríamos vivido nuestras primeras democracias, hace más de dos mil años. Significa contemplar algunos problemas de la sociedad actual en un escenario anterior a la Revolución Industrial y a la abolición de la esclavitud. Y significa sumergirnos en el ambiente físico e intelectual en el que se consolidaron importantes raíces de la cultura europea. Los estudios realizados en los últimos años sobre las mujeres, la familia o la policromía de los mármoles permiten ofrecer en este libro un panorama renovado de la vida cotidiana en...

Los hombres de la Edad Media tenían clara la distinción entre el temor y el miedo. Mientras que el primero es producto del amor, del amor verdadero, que es el amor de Dios, el segundo procede del espanto. A finales de la Edad Media no es raro encontrar menciones del temor para caracterizar lo que el súbdito está obligado a sentir por su rey, pero, hasta el siglo XIV, esta emoción venía aplicándose casi de manera exclusiva a la relación entre la criatura y su creador. A partir de entonces, las resistencias a la absolutización del poder regio, que provocaba cierta equiparación entre...

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Western literary...

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Archaeological and historical papers on the Vandals, looking at origins, their time in Spain and the establishment and functioning of the Vandal kingdom of North Africa. Essays mainly in German with some in English, French, Spanish and Italian.