Convento Viejo en el corazón

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A polemic work due to its hefty critic to public figures and to those who see the electoral reformations -which this book demystifies-, as a historical achievement. The transition to democracy requires not only the dismantlement of the old regime, but also the design of the new normative and institutional arrangement that preserves the plural and multiple spirit of the nation. The task is immense, but our generation cannot avoid it: citizens must not stay apart. The mixture of fill and hope has to be translated into critic, proposal, and active participation. The essays that I have gathered...

La Revolución de Octubre de 1917 constituyó uno de los hitos sobre los que giraría el devenir del mundo contemporáneo, un acontecimiento axial que, sin embargo, no puede entenderse en todo su significado sin tener en cuenta la guerra civil que desencadenó a continuación. En Blancos contra rojos: la Guerra Civil rusa , el profesor Evan Mawdsley ofrece una interpretación exhaustiva de este vasto y complejo periodo, que asoló el antiguo imperio de los zares, alzó a los bolcheviques con la victoria y marcó el nacimiento de la Unión Soviética. Mawdsley ha conseguido con esta obra una...

Los sermones que se conservan de Arias Montano enlazan directamente con la renovación en la predicación que significó el Renacimiento, a la sombra de figuras como el general de los agustinos Egidio de Viterbo o el catedrático de la Universidad de Alcalá, fray Dionisio Vázquez. En este trabajo se editan y estudian dichos sermones, situándolos en su contexto espiritual e intelectual.