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Bernal Díaz del Castillo (1492-1584) was a foot soldier in the army of Mexico's conqueror Hernán Cortés. The first edition of his True History of the Conquest of New Spain (as it was entitled in a later English translation) was published in Madrid in 1632 from a manuscript copy sent to Spain shortly after the author's death. Written in a highly accessible style, and describing the experiences of the troops themselves rather than seeing events from an officer's perspective, the work became even more successful than the official accounts and went through many editions and translations. The...

A mas de sesenta anos del falso final de la Guerra Civil, el presente libro repasa la literatura y la cinematografia mas significativas sobre la guerra y analiza algunos de los mitos y distorsiones mas comunes aun vigentes: su inevitabilidad, la leyenda de Badajoz, la gesta del Alcazar, Madrid como capital de la gloria y del dolor, el papel de sus intelectuales, la confusa cuestion de la memoria y el olvido, etc.

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"Te esperaré, hermana", escribió, de su puño y letra, Claudia Severa a su amiga Sulpicia Lepidina, en la invitación a la celebración de su cumpleaños en un fuerte perdido junto al muro de Adriano. Son los suyos dos nombres de los muchos que mencionará este libro. Nombres de esclavas o de emperatrices, de niñas o de ancianas, de trabajadoras o de sacerdotisas, célebres algunos, pero casi desconocidos la mayoría. Las mujeres romanas, como cualquier mujer en cualquier sociedad, tenían diferentes formas de vivir, pensar y sentir. No existe la "mujer romana", existen muchas formas de...