Andrés Bello

Desmitificando los tópicos con que se nos suelen presentar los tiempos de la caballería, Sean McGlynn, profesor de la Universidad de Bristol, nos descubre en este libro la salvaje realidad de la guerra en la Edad Media: una realidad de trato brutal contra soldados y civiles, de presos masacrados, ciudades saqueadas, campos devastados ... Nada de esto era fortuito, sino que estaba encaminado a lograr unos determinados objetivos: figuras históricas que nos han llegado envueltas en un halo caballeresco, como Carlomagno, Saladino o Ricardo Corazón de León, no dudaron en recurrir a las más...

En este acercamiento antropohistórico al fenómeno de las curaciones milagrosas, Theo Löbsack se pregunta seriamente qué secreto tienen los "charlatanes" que son capaces de curaciones súbitas, con la aparencia completa de un milagro por medios convencionales y excepcionales, en distintas épocas.

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Perhaps the opening paragraph from Paul Larson¿s (Baylor University) prologue to the Epistola ad Mahomatem II summarizes what this new Scripta Humanistica volume has to offer to readers of literature and history alike: ¿This new scholarly edition certainly begs the question: how can a fifteenth century letter from the then Pope Pius II to the Muslim conqueror of Constantinople have any relevance for contemporary scholars and students in the early 21st century? Embroiled as we are in chaotic and tumultuous religious and political conflict in Europe and the Middle East, perhaps the answer is...