Download or read book Historia del Renacimiento written by José Pérez Hervás and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Breve historia del Renacimiento written by Carlos Javier Taranilla and published by Nowtilus. This book was released on 2017-11-24 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Un gran viaje histórico artístico desde el quattrocento de la Florencia de los Medici y la época dorada del cinquecento, con los grandes genios Leonardo, Miguel Ángel o Rafael hasta la propagación del Renacimiento por toda Europa y su florecimiento en España en el siglo XVI con la poesía mística, la picaresca, el Quijote o El Greco Conozca una de las épocas más interesantes de la historia, el inicio de la Edad Moder-na y el desarrollo de la cultura humanista, que desde Italia se extiende por toda Europa occi-dental llegando hasta América a través del descubrimiento y la conquista del Nuevo Mundo. Una época de cambios, con el desarrollo de la ciencia y la astronomía, así como la Reforma protestante iniciada por Lutero, que produjo una división en la Iglesia que perdura hasta hoy. Breve historia del Renacimiento le acercará al genio de los grandes artistas del quat-trocento y el cinquecento, en el que brillaron grandes mentes como Leonardo da Vinci, Ra-fael o Miguel Ángel, así como su influencia en Flandes, los Países Bajos, Francia y España en los tiempos en los que en el Imperio español "nunca se ponía el Sol". Una época en la que desarrollaron su obra grandes creadores como el Greco –que superó el manierismo para al-canzar la modernidad– y hubo un auge de la literatura manifestado tanto en la poesía mística como en el teatro, la novela pastoril, la picaresca, así como la aparición de la obra más impor-tante de la literatura española, el Quijote. Su autor, Carlos J. Taranilla de la Varga, experto en el tema, le presentará con un estilo ágil, ameno y riguroso, una información completa sobre esta época tan importante de la historia, que sentó las bases del desarrollo científico del mundo actual.
Download or read book La cultura del Renacimiento en Italia written by Jacob Burckhardt and published by EDAF. This book was released on 1996 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La cultura del Renacimiento en Italia, del eminente historiador suizo Jacob Burckhardt, tiene todo el renombre de una auténtica obra clásica. Cuando apareció en 1960, resultó revolucionaria: nunca se había intentado una descripción tan completa de una época de nuestra civilización. Posteriormente se han escrito trabajos de mayor extensión, pero no ha sido posible superar la profunda visión de este autor.
Download or read book El Renacimiento Europeo written by Peter Burke and published by Grupo Planeta (GBS). This book was released on 2000-02-08 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Este es un libro original e innovador acerca de un tema, el Renacimiento, sobre el que todo parecía ya dicho y escrito. Peter Burke, profesor de la Universidad de Cambridge, se ha propuesto trascender las descripciones al uso, que suelen limitarse a lo sucedido en Italia, Francia o Flandes, para ofrecernos la plena dimensión europea del Renacimiento: el proceso por el que las nuevas formas culturales y las nuevas ideas llegaron hasta las periferias de nuestro continente, hasta los mundos celta, escandinavo o eslavo, donde las grandes obras de arte eran conocidas tan sólo a través de sus reproducciones por la cerámica o el grabado, pero donde el complejo cultural que llamamos «Renacimiento» acabó transformando no sólo el arte y la literatura, sino los usos de la vida cotidiana, al difundir nuevos conceptos de comportamiento y de elegancia, nuevas danzas, nuevos estilos en la redacción de cartas de amor o incluso nuevos y exóticos utensilios como el tenedor. Burke nos muestra además que éste no fue un simple proceso de reproducción, de recepción pasiva, sino que el Renacimiento se adaptó a los distintos contextos sociales y culturales de Europa a través de una imitación creativa que pasó por una sucesión de fases de recepción, resistencia y, finalmente, de una “domesticación” que acabó integrando los nuevos elementos culturales en la vida cotidiana de estos países y contribuyó, con ello, a europeizar Europa.
Download or read book World Literature Cosmopolitanism Globality written by Gesine Müller and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-10-21 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From today’s vantage point it can be denied that the confidence in the abilities of globalism, mobility, and cosmopolitanism to illuminate cultural signification processes of our time has been severely shaken. In the face of this crisis, a key concept of this globalizing optimism as World Literature has been for the past twenty years necessarily is in the need of a comprehensive revision. World Literature, Cosmopolitanism, Globality: Beyond, Against, Post, Otherwise offers a wide range of contributions approaching the blind spots of the globally oriented Humanities for phenomena that in one way or another have gone beyond the discourses, aesthetics, and political positions of liberal cosmopolitanism and neoliberal globalization. Departing basically (but not exclusively) from different examples of Latin American literatures and cultures in globalized contexts, this volume provides innovative insights into critical readings of World Literature and its related conceptualizations. A timely book that embraces highly innovative perspectives, it will be a mustread for all scholars involved in the field of the global dimensions of literature.
Download or read book Divination on stage written by Folke Gernert and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-02-08 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Magicians, necromancers and astrologers are assiduous characters in the European golden age theatre. This book deals with dramatic characters who act as physiognomists or palm readers in the fictional world and analyses the fictionalisation of physiognomic lore as a practice of divination in early modern Romance theatre from Pietro Aretino and Giordano Bruno to Lope de Vega, Calderón de la Barca and Thomas Corneille.
Download or read book Light Bearers written by Richard W. Schwarz and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fictionalizing heterodoxy written by Folke Gernert and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-06-17 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The information overload produced by the printing press and the new forms of the structuring of knowledge are echoed in fictional works. The essays assembled in this book study the textualization of problematic forms of knowledge in medieval and early modern Spanish literature. Literary Works like the Libro buen amor, La Lozana Andaluza, or the Guzmán de Alfarache are read against the backdrop of scientific developments of their times.
Download or read book Portrait of Mexico written by Diego Rivera and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Code Book written by Simon Singh and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2000-08-29 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his first book since the bestselling Fermat's Enigma, Simon Singh offers the first sweeping history of encryption, tracing its evolution and revealing the dramatic effects codes have had on wars, nations, and individual lives. From Mary, Queen of Scots, trapped by her own code, to the Navajo Code Talkers who helped the Allies win World War II, to the incredible (and incredibly simple) logisitical breakthrough that made Internet commerce secure, The Code Book tells the story of the most powerful intellectual weapon ever known: secrecy. Throughout the text are clear technical and mathematical explanations, and portraits of the remarkable personalities who wrote and broke the world's most difficult codes. Accessible, compelling, and remarkably far-reaching, this book will forever alter your view of history and what drives it. It will also make you wonder how private that e-mail you just sent really is.
Download or read book The Information written by James Gleick and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling author of the acclaimed Chaos and Genius comes a thoughtful and provocative exploration of the big ideas of the modern era: Information, communication, and information theory. Acclaimed science writer James Gleick presents an eye-opening vision of how our relationship to information has transformed the very nature of human consciousness. A fascinating intellectual journey through the history of communication and information, from the language of Africa’s talking drums to the invention of written alphabets; from the electronic transmission of code to the origins of information theory, into the new information age and the current deluge of news, tweets, images, and blogs. Along the way, Gleick profiles key innovators, including Charles Babbage, Ada Lovelace, Samuel Morse, and Claude Shannon, and reveals how our understanding of information is transforming not only how we look at the world, but how we live. A New York Times Notable Book A Los Angeles Times and Cleveland Plain Dealer Best Book of the Year Winner of the PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award
Download or read book An Introduction to the History of Mexican Law written by Guillermo Floris Margadant S. and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book World Anthropologies written by Gustavo Lins Ribeiro and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-07-13 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its inception, anthropology's authority has been based on the assumption that it is a unified discipline emanating from the West. In an age of heightened globalization, anthropologists have failed to discuss consistently the current status of their practice and its mutations across the globe. World Anthropologies is the first book to provoke this conversation from various regions of the world in order to assess the diversity of relations between regional or national anthropologies and a contested, power-laden Western discourse. Can a planetary anthropology cope with both the 'provincial cosmopolitanism' of alternative anthropologies and the 'metropolitan provincialism' of hegemonic schools? How might the resulting 'world anthropologies' challenge the current panorama in which certain allegedly national anthropological traditions have more paradigmatic weight - and hence more power - than others? Critically examining the international dissemination of anthropology within and across national power fields, contributors address these questions and provide the outline for a veritable world anthropologies project.
Download or read book The Diario of Christopher Columbus s First Voyage to America 1492 1493 written by and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This definitive edition of Columbus's account of the voyage presents the most accurate printed version of his journal available to date. Unfortunately both Columbus's original manuscript, presented to Ferdinand and Isabella along with other evidence of his discoveries, and a single complete copy have been lost for centuries. The primary surviving record of the voyage-part quotation, part summary of the complete copy-is a transcription made by Bartolome de las Casas in the 1530s. This new edition of the Las Casas manuscript presents its entire contents-including notes, insertions, and canceled text-more accurately, completely, and graphically than any other Spanish text published so far. In addition, the new translation, which strives for readability and accuracy, appears on pages facing the Spanish, encouraging on-the- spot comparisons of the translation with the original. Study of the work is further facilitated by extensive notes, documenting differences between the editors' transcription and translation and those of other transcribers and translators and summarizing current research and debates on unanswered current research and debates on unanswered questions concerning the voyage. In addition to being the only edition in which Spanish and English are presented side by side, this edition includes the only concordance ever prepared for the Diario. Awaited by scholars, this new edition will help reduce the guesswork that has long plagued the study of Columbus's voyage. It may shed light on a number of issues related to Columbus's navigational methods and the identity of his landing places, issues whose resolution depend, at least in part, on an accurate transcription of the Diario. Containing day-by-day accounts of the voyage and the first sighting of land, of the first encounters with the native populations and the first appraisals of his islands explored, and of a suspenseful return voyage to Spain, the Diario provides a fascinating and useful account to historians, geographers, anthropologists, sailors, students, and anyone else interested in the discovery-or in a very good sea story. Oliver Dunn received the PH.D. degree from Cornell University. He is Professor Emeritus in Purdue University and a longtime student of Spanish and early history of Spanish America. James E. Kelley, Jr., received the M.A. degree from American University. A mathematician and computer and management consultant by vocation, for the past twenty years he has studied the history of European cartography and navigation in late-medieval times. Both are members of the Society for the History of Discoveries and have written extensively on the history of navigation and on Columbus's first voyage, Although they remain unconvinced of its conclusions, both were consultants to the National geographic Society's 1986 effort to establish Samana Cay as the site of Columbus's first landing.
Download or read book El Pueblo written by Jean Bruce Poole and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2002 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Founded in 1781 by pioneers from what is today northern Mexico, El Pueblo de Los Angeles mirrors the history and heritage of the city to which it gave birth. When the pueblo was the capital of Mexico’s Alta California, the region’s rancheros came here to celebrate mass or to attend fiestas in the historic Plaza. Following California’s statehood in 1850, the pueblo for a time ranked among the most lawless towns of the American West. American speculators, wealthy rancheros, and Italian wine merchants crowded its dusty streets. The town’s first barrio and the vibrant precincts of Old Chinatown soon grew up nearby. As Los Angeles burgeoned into a modern metropolis, its historic heart fell into ruin, to be revitalized by the creation in 1930 of the romantic Mexican marketplace at Olvera Street. Here, two years later, David Alfaro Siqueiros painted the landmark mural América Tropical, whose story is a fascinating tale of art, politics, and censorship. In the decades since, the pueblo has remained one of Southern California’s most enduring and most complex cultural symbols. El Pueblo vividly recounts the story of the birthplace of Los Angeles. An engaging historical narrative is complemented by abundant illustrations and a tour of the pueblo’s historic buildings. The book also describes initiatives to preserve the pueblo’s rich heritage and considers the significance of its multicultural legacy for Los Angeles today
Download or read book A Silent Minority written by Susan Plann and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book provides very important evidence that changes in institutional attitudes toward manual language can be traced to broader changes in the accepted conceptions of the nature of language. . . . [It] will prove to be a milestone in the developing discipline of deaf history."--Harlan Lane, author of The Mask of Benevolence
Download or read book A Plea for the Queen s English written by Henry Alford and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
