Literatura, cine y Guerra Civil

La palabra «cosaco» evoca imágenes muy distintas entre la gente. Para algunos, estos diestros jinetes de las estepas de Asia ?con cartucheras y gorros de piel, sables y espuelas? son una personificación romántica del valor y la osadía, de la libertad y el cristianismo militante. Para otros se trata de verdaderos jinetes del infierno: ora rebeldes depravados que hicieron tambalear la casa de los Romanov, ora instrumentos implacables de la expansión rusa y la represión zarista. La verdad no radica en un punto intermedio: por sorprendente que parezca, ambos extremos son ciertos. John Ure ...

These papers are centered on the Crown of Aragon in the later Middle Ages, its achievements (the more remarkable given the very evident problems with which it was beset), and especially on its role in the Mediterranean. Hence the emphasis on Majorca, its leading intellectual figure, Ramon Lull (1232-1316), and his influence, and related to these the article on Thomas Aquinas. Other studies deal with the relations of Christians and Jews in Majorca, down to the Expulsion from Spain. In these papers Professor Hillgarth seeks to investigate the transmission of learning and how what is transmitted ...

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