Tres poetas del exceso

Los lectores y los espectadores de El Hobbit y de la trilogía de El Señor de los Anillos quedan fascinados por el mundo fantástico creado por J.R.R. Tolkien. Pero pocos saben que Tolkien era un ferviente católico, y que los personajes, acontecimientos y los dilemas morales de sus novelas están configurados por los dogmas de su fe. Este aclamado libro de Stratford Caldecott revela los cimientos espirituales de la obra de Tolkien, e incluye comentarios a las adaptaciones cinematográficas de Peter Jackson y referencias a las obras y cartas publicadas tras la muerte de Tolkien que conducen...

The alcalde of Andujar during the reign of Henry IV of Castile (1454-1474), Escavias was also a historian, a poet, and a counselor to the king. Based on unpublished documents, this volume discusses the various aspects of his life and demonstrates conclusively that he was the author of Hechos de Miguel Lucas de Iranzo. In addition, the volume presents the most important sections of his unpublished Repertorio de principes.

Space can best be defined not by looking at borders and territories but, rather, by focussing on movements of crossing and re-crossing. Today, the horizons of traditional Area Studies have to be opened up by innovative TransArea Studies which generate a new vision of entangled and connected histories and multi-, inter- and transcultural developments. The vectorization of all kinds of knowledge is on the agenda: the movements of the past are still present in the movements of today. Could there be a better field for this theoretical shift than the Caribbean, one of the outstanding producers of...

Un hombre ve a una persona idéntica a un viejo amigo de la juventud lo cual lo hace reflexionar sobre la nostalgia, la amistad y el pasado.