La nobleza española y sus espacios de poder (1480-1715)

The abolition of judicial torture—alongside the eradication of both slavery and capital punishment—was one of the most consequential issues debated in eighteenth-century continental Europe. A revealing component of this controversial debate was presented in the unpublished "Discurso sobre la injusticia del apremio judicial," written by the attorney Pedro Garcia del Canuelo. Seeking support for its publication, he forwarded the manuscript to Prime Minister Manuel Godoy in 1795. The savvy Spanish politician, however, not only rejected the text but also warned its author against further...

Esta antologia poetica se centra tematicamente en la celebracion de la festividad del Corpus Christi en la ciudad de Toledo. Ya que el celebre rito ha inspirado una impresionante cantidad de poesia a lo largo de las edades, este volumen reune textos dispersos que abarcan mas de un milenio. Los versos de dicho subgenero compuestos en los siglos XVI y XVII tienden a ser devotos, teologicos o misticos. En tiempos mas recientes, la poesia -corpuscristica-, sin abandonar el matiz religioso, ha llegado a ser una celebracion en el inigualable festival eucaristico. Los autores representados en la...

Sucesos como la elección de nuevo Presidente en los Estados Unidos o los intentos de reforma en la Unión Soviética, con su acompañamiento de tensiones y crisis, acaparan en la actualidad la atención de los medios informativos: las decisiones de los dos grandes nos afectan a todos. En este libro se explica cómo, cuándo y por qué se dividió el mundo en los dos grandes bloques que hoy existen.

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