El emperador y los ríos. Religión, ingeniería y política en el Imperio Romano

La Edad Media ha sido considerada un periodo de estancamiento del saber, sombrío y cruel. Jesús Callejo desmonta esta imagen con un apasionante repaso de la época: desde las bibliotecas perdidas y los textos malditos, a los increíbles avances tecnológicos como las lámparas perpetuas, los espejos mágicos y originales aparatos voladores pasando por los diabólicos autómatas que fueron ocultados a los ojos del gran público.

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La historia del picaresco Mono y sus encuentros con espíritus mayores y menores, dioses, semidioses, demonios, ogros, monstruos y hadas en su camino para alcanzar la iluminación es la novela más popular en la historia del Lejano Oriente —el Quijote de la literatura china— y un clásico de la literatura universal. He aquí una combinación de actos asombrosos y escenas de la vida cotidiana, lecciones de madurez y muy buen humor. Narración de primerísimo nivel, colmada de personalidad y diversión, Rey Mono es una obra única en su combinación de belleza y absurdo, profundidad y...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute...