La estética de la Edad Media

En 1864 se celebró en Londres la Iª Internacional, la clase obrera europea hablaba de su emancipación frente al capital. España, aunque no estuvo representada en Londres, celebró en junio de 1870 en Barcelona el I Congreso de la Sección española de la Internacional. Y en 1883 se creó una Comisión de Reformas Sociales en las Cortes con la misión de estudiar el problema social y proponer soluciones al Gobierno.

High in the Inyo Mountains, between Owens Valley and Death Valley National Park, lies the ghost town of Cerro Gordo. Discovered in 1865, this silver town boomed to a population of 3,000 people in the hands of savvy entrepreneurs during the 1870s. As the silver played out and the town faded, a few hung on to the dream. By the early 1900s, Louis D. Gordon wandered up the Yellow Grade Road where freight wagons once traversed with silver and supplies and took a closer look at the zinc ore that had been tossed aside by early miners. The Fat Hill lived again, primarily as a small company town. By...

ELLAS HABLARON. ELLAS VIVIERON. ELLAS CAMBIARON LA HISTORIA. Fulvia, Cleopatra, Livia, Medea... Roma tiene nombre de mujer y, sin embargo, la historia a menudo se empeña en relegarlas a un papel secundario, cuando no al de meras espectadoras. El ideal de mujer romana demandaba que fueran capaces de gestionar la economía doméstica, que fueran buenas conversadoras, grandes conocedoras del arte y la cultura..., perfectas anfitrionas y modestas compañeras. Pero las de este libro son otras historias: las de jóvenes que se atrevieron a ser gladiadoras o, peor aún, ¡actrices! De mujeres que...

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