Historical and literary works from the Spanish Golden Age offer a wealth of information about the Spanish view of the conflict in the Netherlands during the Dutch Revolt and the ensuing Eighty Years' War (1568-1648). The war in the cold north was to become a fixed component in the lives of the Spaniards of the Golden Age for many years. This book reconstructs the images that the Spanish had of the Netherlands and its inhabitants. These images are inextricably intertwined with the picture that the Spanish constructed of themselves as participants in the conflict. This book follows the developments of these images from the construction of an image of the enemy that reached a climax between 1621 and 1648 and then gradually faded away. Which images and representations circulated the most, and where did they come from? Which rhetoric was used to present them to the public, and in which genres and contexts were they disseminated and preserved? On the basis of a varied collection of sources, war chronicles and plays, as well as pamphlets, poems, historical works and prose writings, the author illustrates the appearance of the Netherlands through Spanish eyes during the course of the Eighty Years' War.

Do narratives make nations, and if so, did networks make this happen? The notion that national and other group identities are constructed and sustained by narratives and images has been widely postulated for several decades now. This volume contributes to this debate, with a particular emphasis on the networked, transnational nature of cultural nation-building processes in a comparative European and sometimes extra-European context. It gathers together essays that engage with objects of study ranging from poetry, prose, and political ideas to painting, porcelain, and popular song, and which draw on examples in Icelandic, Arabic, German, Irish, Hungarian, and French, among other languages. The contributors study transcultural phenomena from the medieval and early modern periods through to the modern and postmodern era, frequently challenging conventional periodizations and analytical frameworks based on the idea of the nation-state.

El titulo de la obra Quetzalli que en el idioma nahuatl significa ?preciosa? (Quetzalli es un prefijo que usaban para designar todo lo bello) En este libro de poesia la mayor parte de ellas esta dedicado, a Quetzalli; mi segunda hija que fallecio hace diez anos en un accidente, cuando faltaban 21 dias para cumplir 21 anos, estudiante de arquitectura. En este se abordan los sentimientos de tristeza, desesperanza, angustia ansiedad y desesperacion que causa la perdida de un hijo que es el mas terrible dolor que puede sufrir un ser humano. Un poema con varios fragmentos dedicado a mi querido hermano Armando fallecido dos anos antes que mi hija. Y otros poemas en donde se expresan diferentes vivencias algunas de forma metaforica, el dolor que me produjo la muerte de mi hija; en los momentos de agonia y posteriormente. Una dedicada a mi tio, a mi padre, otra en especial a mi madre que soporto estoica el proceso de un embarazo complicado cuando me tuvo en su vientre. Finalmente la resignificacion y las ensenanzas que me dejaron mi hija y mi hermano, ella de vivir el presente y el de nunca desistir.

I dedicate these poems to the students and the teachers and staff of P.S. #5 in Jersey City New Jersey. Also to all my children, Alex, Lynnette, Ronny, Merry, and grandchildren, Tiffany, Micaela, Max, and Sofia. To my father Anibal and my mother Francisca.

This book is a delightful and silly story. It is educational, full of bright and colorful images with learning experiences in the classroom.

Spain has been a fruitful locus for the European imagination for centuries, and it has been most often perceived in black-and-white oppositions -- either as a tyrannical and fanatical force in the early modern period or as an imaginary geography of a 'Romantic' Spain in later centuries. However, the image of Spain, its culture and its inhabitants did not evolve inexorably from negative to positive. From the early modern period onwards, it responded to an ambiguous matrix of conflicting Hispanophobic and Hispanophilic representations. Just as in the nineteenth century latent negative stereotypes continued to resurface, even in the Romantic heyday, in the early modern period appreciation for Spain was equally undeniable. When Spain was a political and military superpower, it also enjoyed cultural hegemony with a literary Golden Age producing internationally hailed masterpieces. Literary Hispanophobia and Hispanophilia in Britain and the Low Countries (1550-1850) explores the protracted interest in Spain and its culture, and it exposes the co-existent ambiguity between scorn and fascination that characterizes Western historical perceptions, in particular in Britain and the Low Countries, two geographical spaces with a shared sense of historical connectedness and an overlapping, sometimes complicated, history with Spain.

"Esta valiosa coleccion de ensayos sera de interes para cualquier persona que crea en la justicia." Howard Zehr es conocido por ser el padre de la Justicia Restaurativa. Durante mas de dos anos, Virginia Domingo ha venido publicando sus articulos de forma periodica en la revista Criminologia y Justicia, dando a conocer la Justicia Restaurativa y velando por una mejora del sistema de Justicia en Espana. La presente antologia pone al alcance de un publico mas amplio su rica y extensa obra, y permite reconocer su esfuerzo en la mejora de un ambito que afecta a todos y cada uno de los ciudadanos del Estado. La coleccion esta formada un total de 26 articulos, distribuidos en diez temas, que permiten a los cultivados en el mundo juridico profundizar y reflexionar sobre la Justicia Restaurativa y temas relacionados; y a aquellos mas ajenos a todo este "mundillo" introducirse en los fundamentos teoricos de la Justicia Restaurativa y sus posibilidades practicas. Asimismo, tambien aparecen articulos de opinion en los que se reflexiona sobre la relacion entre victimas y sociedad, justicia y sociedad, justicia y politica; e incluso algunos sobre temas de actualidad, siempre analizados desde el punto de vista de una experta en Justicia Restaurativa.