La ciudad medieval

A monumentally informed and irresistibly opinionated guide to the most un-Spanish city in Spain, from the bestselling author of The Fatal Shore. In these pages, Robert Hughes scrolls through Barcelona's often violent history; tells the stories of its kings, poets, magnates, and revolutionaries; and ushers readers through municipal landmarks that range from Antoni Gaudi's sublimely surreal cathedral to a postmodern restaurant with a glass-walled urinal. The result is a work filled with the attributes of Barcelona itself: proportion, humor, and seny—the Catalan word for triumphant common...

Novedosa reconstrucción histórica de los once reyes de Tenochtitlan y, especialmente de los dos Moctezumas y de sus madres y esposas. A partir de la ruina anterior del reino tolteca y del viaje de Topiltzin Quetzalcóatl a Chichén-Itzá, la destacada antropóloga estadunidense desarrolla la tesis de la conciencia cíclica de los aztecas como teoría que explicaba sus grandes cataclismos y el presagio de nuevas eras.

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La Edad Media ha sido considerada un periodo de estancamiento del saber, sombrío y cruel. Jesús Callejo desmonta esta imagen con un apasionante repaso de la época: desde las bibliotecas perdidas y los textos malditos, a los increíbles avances tecnológicos como las lámparas perpetuas, los espejos mágicos y originales aparatos voladores pasando por los diabólicos autómatas que fueron ocultados a los ojos del gran público.