El terror de los tiranos. La imprenta en la centuria que cambió Cuba (1763-1868)

El 1 de junio de 1310, en París, las llamas de una hoguera de la Inquisición consumieron el cuerpo vivo de una mujer de la que poco se sabe: Margarita Porete, una beguina de la región de Hainaut que había escrito un libro, El espejo de las almas simples, y que fue la causa de su condena. A pesar de ello, y tras su muerte, este libro tuvo tan enorme difusión que, en los últimos siglos de la Edad Media, traspasó fronteras geográficas y lingüísticas como pocos textos de su época, traduciéndose del francés (o del probable original picardo) al latín, al inglés y al italiano. Escrito ...

Forgé par Gabriel Naudé, au temps baroque d'une raison d'État triomphante, le concept de « coup d'État » peut-il s'appliquer à des âges antérieurs, en particulier à celui de la genèse médiévale de l'État moderne ? C'est à cette question d'histoire rétrospective qu'ont tenté de répondre les auteurs de cet ouvrage. Leurs réponses, qui dessinent un vaste panorama occidental et comparatiste - de l'Angleterre à la péninsule italienne et de la péninsule Ibérique à la Suède - tendent à démontrer que, bien avant de devenir un concept, le coup d'État a d'abord été une...

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Popular American essayist, novelist, and journalist CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER (1829-1900) was renowned for the warmth and intimacy of his writing, which encompassed travelogue, biography and autobiography, fiction, and more, and influenced entire generations of his fellow writers. Here, the prolific writer turned editor for his final grand work, a splendid survey of global literature, classic and modern, and it's not too much to suggest that if his friend and colleague Mark Twain-who stole Warner's quip about how "everybody complains about the weather, but nobody does anything about it"-had...