The Death of Socrates, by Jacques-Louis David. 1787. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York • WIKIMEDIA COMMONS “Like a gadfly on the side of a limp horse. This is how Socrates summed up his role as a tireless agitator, working within the Athenian city. Until his death sentence in 399 BC. J.-C., t
We are pleased to invite you to the presentation of El Cid. History and myth of a warlord , which will take place at the Marcial Pons bookstore (Pl. del Conde del Valle de Súchil, 8) on Tuesday, December 10 at 7:00 p.m. . There we will have the presence of its author, David Porrinas González, resear
Introduction The word chocolate can evoke images of sweet candies and juicy truffles, but todays chocolate is little like the chocolate of the past. For much of history, chocolate was a venerable but bitter drink, not a sweet, edible treat. But in about 90 percent of the chocolates long history
Holy places and relics occupied an important place in medieval Christianity. The Church, which had already justified the holy war during the Reconquista , will initiate several crusades all aimed at liberating the holy land, Jerusalem. Always stemming from a papal bull, the call to the crusade is re