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«El feliz encuentro de una novelista en estado de gracia con un reformador, lleno de aristas, que quiso adelantarse a su tiempo y fracasó.» Marcos Giralt Torrente Un libro maravilloso e inclasificable en el que Carmen Martín Gaite, fascinada por el personaje y basándose en años de paciente labor en archivos, rastreó y contó con gran ingenio el enredado proceso seguido por la Inquisición a Melchor de Macanaz (1670-1760). La peripecia vital de este pensador tenaz, su progreso y caída en desgracia, muestra la fuerza que aún conservaba la Inquisición en pleno Siglo de las Luces, así...

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Este libro intenta dar a conocer una primera manifestación (poco conocida aún) del carácter «combativo» del historiador Lucien Febvre. Los años 1907-1910, de intensas agitaciones sociales en Francia, vieron, efectivamente, la participación activa y militante en el periódico «Le Socialiste Comtois», de Besançon, del que más tarde, en 1929, juntamente con su amigo Marc Bloch, fundaría los «Annales d’Histoire Economique et Sociale»

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...