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Fernan Gonzalez lived from about AD 910 to 970. The popular image of him is of a fearsome warrior who gave his people protection from their enemies (both Muslim and Christian), and a wise and respected lord who enabled them to live in security and harmony. He was generally accepted to have played a strategic role in achieving independence for Castile and freeing it from dominance by the kingdom of Leon. The Poema de Fernan Gonzalez was composed (by an unknown author) in the mid-thirteenth century as an enduring celebration of his triumphs and account of his life and deeds. Fact and legend...

Hans-Georg Gadamer, uno de los representantes más destacados de la filosofía hermenéutica del siglo XX, nos acerca en este libro a la lírica alemana contemporánea. Sus reflexiones y comentarios son aproximaciones eminentemente personales a la poesía y reflejan una posición de lector atento sensible que no pretende construir interpretaciones eruditas de teoría literaria. Los ensayos de Gadamer convencen y atraen por sus lúcidas conclusiones y por el equilibrio entre consideraciones estilísticas y temáticas, aspectos biográficos y cuestiones de ubicación socio-histórica y...

El libro de la vigilia es una colección de poemas sobre el estado del sueño, la muerte y la violencia. Un libro que evoca estados alterados frente a lo cotidiano.

This volume of collected essays explores the premise that Plutarch's work, notwithstanding its amazing thematic multifariousness, constantly pivots on certain ideological pillars which secure its unity and coherence. So, unlike other similar books which, more or less, concentrate on either the Lives or the Moralia or on some particular aspect(s) of Plutarch's oeuvre, the articles of the present volume observe Plutarch at work in both Lives and Moralia, thus bringing forward and illustrating the inner unity of his varied literary production. The subject-matter of the volume is uncommonly...