Fiesta, memoria y nación. Ritos, símbolos y discursos, 1573-1830

Desde la más remota antigüedad, los chinos han escrito textos eróticos que no tienen nada que envidiar al famoso Kamasutra hindú, que data en torno al siglo VI, ni al Breviario árabe del amor, escrito en el siglo XVI. Obras elaboradas mucho después que el ars erotica chino. Nacido en torno a la fertilidad y la longevidad vital, y asociado a la unión con el cosmos a través del Yin y el Yang, en China se desarrolló toda una serie de “artes de la alcoba” que se transmitieron durante siglos a través de textos eróticos e ilustraciones que tenían un carácter pedagógico. El ascenso ...

Esta magnífica obra trata del amor que sentía el gran cacique Guarionex por la hermosa taina Loarina. Pero este gran amor no era correspondido, pues Loarina amaba a su vez al soldado español Cristobal de Sotomayor. Al sentirse rechazado, Guarionex reta a un duelo a muerte a Sotomayor, que termina con graves consecuencias para ambos...

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Fernand Braudel (1912-1985), was a leading French historian and author of, among other books, the groundbreaking The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II (1949). One of the founders of the Annales School in France, Braudel insisted on treating the Mediterranean region as a whole, irrespective of religious and national divides. Braudel's new historiography rejected political history as the dominant discipline and espoused a 'total history' or a 'history from below' that would tell the story of the vast majority of humanity hitherto excluded from the grand...