Ciencia, cine e historia

La creciente presencia en nuestras pantallas de filmes procedentes de cinematografias hasta hace poco irremisiblemente exoticas constituye sin duda uno de los fenomenos culturales mas significativos del momento. Abriendo un pequeno nicho en el marco de la tradicional hegemonia euro norteamericana en la pantalla de todo el mundo, estos cines perifericos no solo proporcionan a los espectadores nuevas y estimulantes experiencias esteticas, sino que obligan a los especialistas a replantearse el papel de los mismos en una genuina historia mundial del cine que todavia ha de ser convenientemente...

How did Spanish America influence the creation of an independent Brazil? In the six studies that this book contains, Joao Paulo Pimenta covers several points of contact between the Hispanic and Luso-American revolutionary processes in an attempt to show that the reciprocal parallelisms imply an erroneous separation of the two movements which are actually just one

This study looks at the concepts of society, space, urbanism, expansion and organisation in the transition from Late Antiquity to the medieval period in Castile, Spain. Escalona reviews the evidence for the Iron Age and Roman antecedents in this area and details the history of fragmentation of the different territories within it, especially under the Visigoths and prior to the medieval period. Escalona discusses the development of a series of territories including Juarros, Carazo, Barbadillo and Salas, and focuses in particular on Lara which, by the middle of the 11th century, had become the...

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Un viaje apasionante por la historia del amor en la época de los trovadores que muestra cómo vivían las personas este sentimiento. Tristán e Isolda, Eloísa y Abelardo... El amor fue una inspiración divina para los autores de la Edad Media. Los trovadores proponían un nuevo arte de amar y elaboraron un “mapa de la ternura”. Las obras literarias de la época nos hablan del amor, sin olvidar la sexualidad, puesto que los vecinos árabes poseían una cultura refinada del arte amoroso y todo esto terminó influyendo enormemente a sus contemporáneos medievales. Aunque, para la Iglesia,...