Pintura toledana de la segunda mitad del siglo XVI

Zoé Oldenbourg (1916-2002) llegó a Francia huyendo de la revolución bolchevique y es autora de una amplia obra narrativa y ensayística con la Edad Media, las cruzadas y el catarismo como protagonistas privilegiados. Tras terminar durante la segunda guerra mundial Barro y cenizas (1944), saltó a la fama internacional al conseguir el Premio Fémina con la novela La piedra amgular (1953), a la que siguieron Los Quemados (1960) y Las ciudades carnales (1961). Es autora también de dos obras dramáticas situadas en la Edad Media, L ́évêque et la vieille dame ou la belle-mère de Peytaví...

El "escritocentrismo" en el que vive el lector contemporáneo le dificulta comprender que la invención de la imprenta, hacia 1440, no acabó de tajo con la antigua práctica de leer en voz alta. La estudiosa extrae de diversas fuentes indicios de las maneras en las que el grueso de la población española se vinculaba con los textos en esa época singular en que la obra capital de Cervantes salía a la luz y cuya divulgación se dio, sin duda, de manera frecuentemente oral. En contraste, nos ofrece un retrato del autor del Quijote leyendo en silencio, preferencia que compartía con su...

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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...