Bathroom Portraits

Why are ravens black? Why do screech owl eyes look red in light? How did we get fire? You'll find the answers to those questions in this retelling of a Cherokee pourquoi folktale. The earth was cold and dark but the animals could see fire coming from the tree on the island. They tried to fly or swim to the island to bring back the fire heat and light. What happened to some of the animals? Which animal brought it back and how?

Archaeological excavations of the baptistery of the Late Antique site of Son Peretó (Manacor), located on the island of Mallorca in the Balearic Islands (Spain), provide interesting new findings related to the material culture of the 5th to 8th centuries AD and, above all, in relation to the tombs, pools and baptismal buildings on the site.

La historia del liberalismo como ideología fundadora de nuestro continente se remonta hasta el siglo XVIII, cuando fue adoptado como el gran modelo de la modernidad. Esta reunión de ensayos bajo el cuidado de Jean-Pierre Bastian analiza el contexto de las luchas políticas contra la masonería durante el siglo pasado.

A comprehensive study of a wide range of Andalusian ivory artefacts from the Middle Ages. As well as examining the Late Roman background to Hispano-Muslim ivory working, the book gives weight to the full chronological span of muslim rule in Spain, although it does not ignore the most famous pieces from the 10th and 11th centuries. The corpus which is presented allows new insights on production and its social and political contexts, on chronology, and on iconographic considerations