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La estancia de Alexander von Humboldt en territorios hispanoamericanos, entre 1799 y 1805, tuvo diversas repercusiones de caracter cientifico. A partir de que supo allegarse a todo tipo de informacion, tanto del poder como de los hombres de cultura de entonces, logro elaborar interpretaciones y exposiciones panoramicas, rigurosas y sistematicas de fenomenos y acontecimientos de estos territorios. Con ello Humboldt continuo su tarea de reintegrar America al mundo occidental.

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The Lingua Ignota, "brought forth" by the twelfth-century German nun Hildegard of Bingen, provides 1012 neologisms for praise of Church and new expression of the things of her world. Noting her visionary metaphors, her music, and various medieval linguistic philosophies, Higley examines how the "Unknown Language" makes arid signifiers green again. This text, however, is too often seen in too narrow a context: glossolalia, angelic language, secret code. Higley provides an edition and English translation of its glosses in the Riesencodex (with assistance from the Berlin MS) , but also places it ...

Basándose en los archivos personales inéditos de José Mario Armero, Alfonso Pinilla desentraña la desconocida intrahistoria de las negociaciones para la legalización del PCE entre Santiago Carrillo y Adolfo Suárez. Desde los primeros contactos, discretos y secretos, antes de la muerte de Franco, hasta el sábado 9 de abril de 1977. Todo a través de dos intermediarios de máxima confianza: Jaime Ballesteros en nombre de Carrillo, y el abogado Pepe Mario Armero, hombre leal a Suárez sin fisuras.