EUROPA Y ESPAÑA EN EL PENSAMIENTO DE LUIS DÍEZ DEL CORRAL

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 ...

Pedro José Guiteras sacó a la luz hechos olvidados, que sus antecesores creyeron infecundos o sobradamente significativos; llevó los estudios históricos de Cuba más allá de la simple crónica externa de acontecimientos a menudo intrascendentes, o como ahora podría decirse con Spengler, ahistóricos o faltos de historicidad, y por primera vez en la historiografía cubana se enlazó íntimamente el desarrollo de nuestro pueblo con el resto de la vida mundial. Fernando Ortiz

<I>Los poderes de la palabra: El improperio en la cultura hispanica del Siglo de Oro es una obra interdisciplinar, fruto del encuentro de areas cientificas diversas, que aborda el estudio de las manifestaciones de la violencia verbal en la Espana de los siglos XVI y XVII. Desde la autenticidad de los libelos infamatorios, o desde la oralidad cotidiana recogida en procesos legales, la perspectiva historica recupera denuestos, blasfemias y maldiciones, e interpreta su valor sociohistorico en los entresijos de la sociedad aurisecular. El analisis literario se adentra en la rica y variada...

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