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As with many writers before and since, William Shakespeare was influenced by the events that took shape all around him. Sweeping changes to England's politics, language, and culture that took place during his lifetime were the fertile ground from which the Bard drew inspiration. Shakespeare's life is surveyed and the social context in which he created his greatest drama and poetry is examined.
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La reflexión sobre la naturaleza del alma ha ocupado a la filosofía prácticamente desde su origen. Son bien conocidas las ideas de Platón y Aristóteles sobre la psique que, como se sabe, marcaron el desarrollo posterior del pensamiento occidental. No ocurre lo mismo, sin embargo, con las ideas de quienes continuaron reflexionando sobre ésta entre la Antigüedad tardía y el Renacimiento. En esos más de diez siglos de intensa actividad filosófica,...
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La configuración a partir del siglo XVI de las grandes monarquías europeas y de sus cortes conllevó el desarrollo de un ceremonial y una etiqueta que generaron una serie de tipologías de festejos cortesanos, periódicos y excepcionales, de carácter gozoso: juras reales, nacimientos de príncipes e infantes, bodas reales, triunfos militares, embajadas diplomáticas, etc. Los palacios fueron constantemente escenarios privilegiados de estos ceremoniales....
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Christopher Prendergast is professor emeritus of French literature at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of King's College and the British Academy. He is the general editor of the Penguin Proust, and his many books include Mirages and Mad Beliefs: Proust the Skeptic (Princeton).
An accessible and authoritative new history of French literature, written by a highly distinguished transatlantic group of scholars
This book provides an engaging,...
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Few episodes in Western history have so shaped our world as the Protestant Reformation and the counter-Reformations, which accompanied it. The Reformation tore the seamless garment of Western Christendom in two, pitting king and pope, laity and clergy, Protestant and Catholic against one another. But, it was also a firestorm tearing through an old, stagnant, and dying forest, sowing the seeds for a burst of new and newly diverse life.
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Included in this indispensable book are some of the most significant documents tracing Freemasonry from its early operative roots to the early collections defining the seeds of Speculative Freemasonry. Included are: "Edict of Rothari"; "The Regius Manuscript"; "The Matthew Cooke Manuscript"; "The Torgau Ordinances"; "The Strasburg Manuscript"; "Watson Manuscript"; "The Schaw Statutes"; "St. Clair Charters"; "Harleian Manuscript"; "Inigo Jones Manuscript";...
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