El tránsito vacilante

La invasión de Ucrania por parte de Rusia es solo la última de una larga historia de luchas por un territorio clave sujeto a disputas constantes entre Occidente y Oriente. Las puertas de Europa, ampliamente reconocida como una obra de referencia, nos sumerge en la historia del país más grande y desconocido del continente. Situado entre la Europa central, Rusia y Oriente Medio, Ucrania la conformaron los imperios que hicieron uso de su lugar estratégico como pasarela entre Oriente y Occidente, desde los imperios romano y otomano, hasta el Tercer Reich y la Unión Soviética. En esta obra...

With its 27 contributions, this volume presents most of the papers delivered at the "XVe Colloque du Comite International de Paleographie". The conference's focus was regional and supra-regional influences on the development of Latin script from late antiquity and the early medieval period to the beginning of modern times. The geographic area considered in the articles spans the Iberian Peninsula and Central Europe to Iceland. In their contributions, the authors have attempted to show the impact that not only local conditions but also European cultural and intellectual centres had on the...

The Project was born when Professor Omer Bartov began to question his Israeli family on their European origins. The answers led him to a long exploration of places, archives, passages, books, monuments, and memories of the most brutal chapter in the history of the twentieth century. The genocide perpetrated by the Nazi's and their accomplices in Ukraine was not a methodical industrial activity, but rather an endless succession of almost intimately crafted killings. Some responsible even benefitted politically or economically. The echoes of what happened arrive today as small keys that help us ...

Una dictadura que no se explica sin la aparición de una guerrilla anterior. En esa diálectica de la fuerza se perderá primero la tolerancia y luego la libertad.