Convento Viejo en el corazón

Obra lujosamente editada en gran formato, con numerosas ilustraciones a color; parte esencial del contenido. Da una visión general de la realidad histórica americana en los siglos XVI y XVII desde una óptica renovada e integradora que abarca todos los campos temáticos: sociedad, población, economía, instituciones, iglesia, arte, urbanismo, etc.

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As a community-based organization in the mountains of south-central Puerto Rico, Casa Pueblo implements alternatives to extractive capitalism that do not rely on governments or distant non-profits. In this book, Alexis Massol González, Casa Pueblo's founder, reflects on its extraordinary forty-year history of experiments with community self-governance. Massol-González received the prestigious Goldman Prize (popularly known as the Green Nobel) for the organization's initiatives to protect the environment, affirm cultural and human values, and create sustainable economic alternatives. This...

Los Maestros constructores conocían un saber arcano y misterioso que inmortalizaron en cada rincón de los templos y catedrales medievales. Cuando en la Edad Media se levantaba una catedral, una iglesia o una ermita, se realizaba primero un ritual de purificación, un simulacro de sacrificio que recordaba los sacrificios humanos reales que se realizaban antiguamente con el fin de evitar que el edificio se derrumbara por obra de la fuerza de la Madre Tierra. Toda la construcción y la orientación de los templos estaba basada en saberes ocultos que los Maestros constructores conocían por una ...