Esta salvaje pesadilla

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 ...

Peter Jones, que enseñó cultura clásica en Cambridge y enla Universidadde Newcastle, ha escrito algo así como una historia amena de Roma, desde su fundación hasta las invasiones bárbaras, en una sucesión de textos breves, a modo de viñetas, que nos hablan de los grandes personajes y de los acontecimientos fundamentales de la historia de la ciudad y del imperio, pero también de circunstancias anecdóticas que se refieren a unos y otros –los gansos del Capitolio, los elefantes de Aníbal, la riqueza de Craso, la construcción del Coliseo...- o de cuestiones que nos aproximan a la...

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