Tesoros

The contributions gathered in this volume take a fresh look at the medieval history of women, revealing the many faces of female reality during an extremely dynamic period—while individuality was on the rise, new linguistic codes (vernacular languages) and innovative literary genres were emerging, and the political situation was undergoing deep changes. The book is structured in three interrelated sections: The first is dedicated to "Historical femininity" and documents the cultural and literary activities carried out by women from the nobility. The second is about "Authorial femininity"...

Este libro forma parte del curso Perfeccionamiento del español a través de textos teatrales. Es un curso compuesto por doce libros en los que se utilizan textos del teatro clásico español de los siglos XVII-XX y dirigido principalmente a los estudiantes de idiomas de las clases superiores y de la universidad, pero también muy útil para quien quiera profundizar en el conocimiento de la Lengua de forma amena e instructiva. Cada uno de los libros contiene una breve biografía del autor, las características de su obra dramática, una presentación de la obra elegida y un fragmento...

It's time to talk! ... and have a cultured conversation. Providing the truly communicative, deeply culture-focused approach instructors believe in along with the guidance and tools students need to be successful using a program with highly communicative goals--with Mosaicos, there is no need to compromise. Recognizing the primacy of the relationship between culture and language, the new Sixth Edition of Mosaicos places culture up front and center, and everywhere in-between!

What cities were there in early 16th-century Spain? With how many inhabitants? Were they fortified? And how many leagues apart were they? Those are the questions that Ferdinand Columbus tried to answer in his Vocabulary containing the names of the places and kingdoms of Spain. The present edition reconstructs the "cosmographic" endeavor of Christopher Columbus’ youngest son based on two codices from the Biblioteca Capitular y Colombina of Seville.