El sueño de Ulises

José Enrique Ruiz-Domènec construye un gran relato sobre los momentos cruciales y las figuras fundamentales de la historia de España. Se trata de un libro vertebrado por una serie de estudios, imaginativos e iluminadores, y al tiempo rigurosos, sobre la romanización, el perfil del pueblo visigodo, los avatares de la formación del modelo político de los Omeyas, la creación de los reinos cristianos en la Edad Media, el ritmo de las transformaciones que condujeron al estado dinástico de los Reyes Católicos, las alegrías y los sinsabores del Siglo de Oro, los sueños del reformismo...

MUJERES CAÍDAS Prostitución legal y clandestina en el franquismo El oficio de tinieblas de la propaganda franquista sobre su régimen logró velar su perfecto entendimiento con el mundo de la prostitución. Tras el corsé gris e inquisitorial del movimiento se escondió el vivo mercado de la carne mercenaria, legal hasta 1956. Las más pobres, las más marginales de las meretrices se lanzaban "por libre", fuera del dogal de las mancebías -pero con la argolla de la miseria al cuello-, a la prostitución clandestina. Ellas fueron el objetivo de la Obra de Redención de Mujeres Caídas,...

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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 ...

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