Los años del Nodo

El autor nos ofrece en esta obra el verdadero rostro de una España en guerra. Estos dos volúmenes, que se complementan el uno al otro, son una crónica sobre como los españoles vivieron tras el inicio del conflicto en las zonas de cada uno de los dos bandos. En la zona nacional veremos como convivieron con las nuevas costumbres que traían los ejércitos franquistas. En la zona leal al gobierno republicano veremos desde las repletas terrazas de los cafés de un Madridi sitiado hasta los distubios revolucionarios de Barcelona o la aparente tranquilidad de Valencia. El autor nos mostrará,...

Se analizan los momentos y aspectos políticos, sociales y culturales más destacables del proceso de helenización del mundo romano, que comenzando en el siglo III a.C. culminó con la Koiné cultural y política que se produce en el Mediterráneo en el siglo II a.C.

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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 ...