San Juan de Dios y su Orden Hospitalaria

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Asserts that during the 19th-20th centuries, French antisemitism had a great influence in Spain, backed by the old Spanish medieval stereotypes about the Jews. The new French antisemitism described the Jew as a secret conspirator who wished to dominate the world and destroy European culture. In Spain, as in the rest of Europe, this image was used (mostly by militant Catholic circles) to rationalize the end of absolutism and the rise of liberalism. Later, the same stereotype was used to explain the Russian Revolution. After World War II, antisemitism in Spain declined, but in the 1990s the...

Preparese para desaprender todo lo que creia saber sobre la Capilla Sixtina y las obras maestras de Miguel angel. Este libro procurara desplazar siglos de prejuicio, censura e ignorancia de uno de los tesoros del arte mas famosos y queridos del mundo. Hace quinientos anos Miguel angel comenzo una pintura que se convirtio en una de las piezas de arte mas famosas del mundo: el cielorraso de la Capilla Sixtina. Todos los anos, millones de personas se acercan a ver el cielorraso Sixtino de Miguel angel, el fresco mas grande del mundo en la mas sagrada de las capillas cristianas; sin embargo, no...

Panorámica general del mundo árabe e islámico en sus diversos aspectos a través de temas significativos como historia (al-Andalus), política contemporánea (conflicto árabe-israelí), sociedad (fundamentalismo, inmigración).