Ese diamante llamado Libertad

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Perhaps the opening paragraph from Paul Larson¿s (Baylor University) prologue to the Epistola ad Mahomatem II summarizes what this new Scripta Humanistica volume has to offer to readers of literature and history alike: ¿This new scholarly edition certainly begs the question: how can a fifteenth century letter from the then Pope Pius II to the Muslim conqueror of Constantinople have any relevance for contemporary scholars and students in the early 21st century? Embroiled as we are in chaotic and tumultuous religious and political conflict in Europe and the Middle East, perhaps the answer is...

El nazismo postuló que todos aquellos que no fueran arios no eran humanos y por tanto serían tratados como animales. Si era ético experimentar con perros, gatos y ratones, ¿qué problema habría en hacerlo con judíos, polacos, gitanos u homosexuales? La respuesta la encontramos en los campos de concentración nazis donde cientos de fieles guardianas, con la sangre "limpia" y libres de intoxicaciones, se convirtieron en las torturadoras y asesinas más despiadadas de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. No son tan famosas como los Hitler, Himmler, Goebbels o Mengele pero la Historia más siniestra...

Este libro indaga con erudici n acad mica y talento literario en el porqu de esta fascinaci n por un emperador romano cuyos actos -extravagantes, de ordinario escandalosos y a menudo repulsivos- simbolizan la decadencia de Roma, y cuyo retorno, sin embargo, siempre se aguard en los siglos posteriores a su muerte con una mezcla de esperanza y miedo. En una revisi n del relato hist rico el experto Edward Champlin expone la l gica que animaba la teatralidad exacerbada de los gestos de Ner n, y que fuentes hostiles e interesadas unidas a la imaginaci n popular aprovecharon Para eternizar la...