La enemistad perdura. La amistad es menos segura. Sobre todo en esos tiempos.
King Charles I of England believed in the compromise worked out under Queen Elizabeth – that the Church of Rome had fallen into evil ways, that the English Church was purified Catholicism, and that it...
His own people, the Dutchman thought, as men of the sea, had no liking for thunder. To them it brought harms and fears. But the Indians were wiser. They knew what it meant when the thunder spoke: the...
And suddenly it came to him. That Strawberry Fields garden he'd come from, and the Freedom Tower he'd been thinking of: taken together, didn't they contain the two words that said it all about this ci...
—Dicen que los poetas y los intelectuales son los mejores terroristas
Imaginarias a lo largo
We, the heirs of Saint Patrick, we who kept alive the Christian faith and the writings of ancient Rome when most of the world had sunk under the barbarians, we who gave the Saxons their education are...
The whole area, manor house, Clink, all eighteen brothels and the handsome profits therefrom, belonged to and was ruled by the bishop.
That’s Frank Master’s hand, he remarked.
She did not know what people of other nations ate, and did not care. For Italian food was the best.
People in the city developed antennae that sent warning signals whenever trouble came near.
Only one thing, in those years, drew from her a cry of fury. This was the publication, in 1563, of a single, stout book. It was known as Foxe’s Book of Martyrs; and it was an astonishing feat of propa...
New York was always materialist. But it was also the city of excellence, of art, music, of endless possibilities.
Los ricos, los de clase media y los pobres se codeaban sin mayor problema, al igual que lo sagrado y lo profano.
Los antiguos griegos lo llamaban la tragedia del hibris. El rey que peca de exceso de orgullo recibe el castigo de los dioses.
It was evident that Madame Restell not only liked to do as she pleased, but to talk about it as well.
In recent decades, Ireland in general and Dublin in particular, have been very fortunate in the quality of the historical attention they have received. During the extensive research required to write...
He observed, they’re sure to go off whoring and get into trouble.
But he’d managed to get his hands on a big estate
Antes que nada,