Curiosidades Históricas de San Sebastián, |...

El 18 de julio de 1944, Philipp von Boeselager, un joven oficial de caballería de veintisiete años, combatiente en el frente del este, se pone al mando de 1200 hombres de la Wehrmacht. Sólo él conoce el objetivo de la operación: llegar a Berlín y ocupar los centros de poder del Reich después del atentado contra Hitler que debe llevar a cabo el coronel von Stauffenberg. Pero las cosas no salieron como se esperaba y Philipp Freiherr von Boeselager es el único superviviente entre los conjurados del 20 de julio de 1944. Educado en una familia aristocrática de Renania, en la que la...

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Western literary...

This revised thesis aims to add to our knowledge of Hispano-Roman architecture in the Lusitanian capital of Augusta Emerita through an exploration of its theatre and amphitheatre.

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...