Shot just after Colonel Blimp, A Canterbury tale is an exciting film rich in meaning, a unique and unclassifiable work, at the crossroads of many genres, but also of several eras and multiple themes. One of the duo’s greatest successes Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. For a British audience, the name Canterbury has a particular … Read more
Against this deeply rooted vice, the effort of the North American historians Peter Linebaugh (1943) and Marcus Rediker (1951) with The hydra of the revolution is to present a sample of “ignored characters and forgotten fights” essential to appraise our vision of the capitalist expansion of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in the Atlantic environment. … Read more
In the year 1072 one of the historical events took place most relevant to the city of Zamora. At least, that is what the oral tradition has been in charge of perpetuating to this day through an epic poem that narrates with crudeness and minstrelsy language how the people of Zamora resisted their famous Siege, … Read more
The “Vera Cruz” itself, also called “del Milagro” or “Cruz de Garay” is guarded in the Cathedral of the city of Santa Fe, in the historic center of the city. The small cross, seven centimeters high by three wide and uniformly carved in an unknown wood, is embedded in the heart of another larger cross, … Read more
A member of the penitential brotherhood places a painting in one of the rooms of the temple. / Carlos Thick Valladolid The Brotherhood of the Holy Passion of Christ has a rich heritage The history of the capital is inextricably linked to the future of the Brotherhood of the Holy Passion of Christ. A chronology … Read more