La España contemporánea

Present-day medievalists regard it as an undisputed fact that Arabic culture - especially science - influenced the Latin Middle Ages in a multitude of ways. However, more detailed research is needed into the conditions, background and context of this 'cultural exchange', a task undertaken by the present volume in 44 papers from a variety of disciplines.

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The Myth of the Non-Russian explores the magical realist prose of two non-Slavic authors writing in Russian in the Soviet Union in the 1970s-1980s. Erika Haber argues that these authors juxtaposed their native myth with Soviet myth, thus undermining the Soviet prescription of national conformity in art by suggesting a plurality of worlds and truths.

La historia del libro universal ha venido siendo una historia en masculino, prácticamente desde los orígenes. El estudio de los talleres de imprenta, de la edición de libros, de las librerías e incluso de las bibliotecas se desarrollaba entre rudos personajes que manejaban las prensas, hábiles negociantes que identificaban las obras que habrían de producir beneficios, concienzudos artesanos que encuadernaban y vendían el libro, e intelectuales que lo coleccionaban y, posiblemente, leían. Todos, o casi todos, hombres. Sin embargo, desde hace algún tiempo la investigación ha...