Vikingos

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Una de las singularidades del humanismo hispánico son sus raíces hebraizantes. Más allá de asertos más o menos injustificados, esta monografía pone sobre la mesa el conocimiento directo que los humanistas del XVI tuvieron de las interpretaciones judaicas del Cantar de los cantares y, en especial, de las lecturas que los judíos españoles hicieron del poema bíblico durante la Edad Media. Los nombre de Benito Arias Montano o fray Luis de León comparten protagonismo con otros biblistas filojudaicos del Siglo de Oro.

En esta obra, Jacques Le Goff explora el imaginario medieval a través de sus más importantes componentes: por una parte, los héroes, como Carlomagno, el Cid, el rey Arturo, Roldán o Robín de los Bosques, sin olvidar al hada Melusina, al mago Merlín, ni tampoco al zorro y el unicornio. Y, por otra, las maravillas: tres edificios o poderes que dominan la sociedad: la catedral, la fortaleza y el claustro. La iconografía medieval se caracteriza por ignorar las fronteras entre lo natural y lo sobrenatural, entre el mundo terrenal y el más allá, y por abarcar un amplio espacio geográfico. ...