Y es que cuesta imaginar dos figuras más brillantes, mordaces y antagónicas que Chesterton y Shaw. También, en la historia de la literatura, cuesta encontrar dos rivales que se respetaran tanto. La mejor muestra, milagrosamente salvad...
A través de las páginas de este agudo ensayo histórico, Hilaire Belloc explica cómo la Iglesia católica, en las Edades Oscuras, ayudó a salvar Occidente, preservando lo mejor de la civilización griega y...
A comienzos del siglo pasado, un emocionado y bravucón Hilaire Belloc, de pie frente a la imagen de la Virgen a la que tantas veces rezó en su infancia, hizo la siguiente promesa: Partiré de este lugar donde, por mis pecados,...
Como es sabido, George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) y Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936), los dos formidables escritores ingleses de la primera mitad del siglo XX, polemizaron durante años y años sobre los más diversos asuntos, tanto...
Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953) escribió más de 50 libros sobre temas que van desde la historia a los viajes, desde la economía al pensamiento social, desde la política a la religión. Fue un maestro de la polémica,...
ESTADO SERVIL, EL. "Este libro ha sido escrito para sostener y probar la verdad siguiente: Que nuestra sociedad moderna, en la cual los medios de producción son poseídos por unos pocos, hallándose necesariamente en equilibrio...
A delightful travelogue that is really about religion and history and the meaning of life. He was only about 32 when he made the pilgrimage to Rome. He broke most of the vows he took before he embarked on this exploration of his soul. Belloc is at his...
Hilaire Belloc, in full Joseph-Hilaire-Pierre-René Belloc, (born July 27, 1870, La Celle-Saint-Cloud, Fr.died July 16, 1953, Guildford, Surrey, Eng.), French-born poet, historian, and essayist who was among the most versatile English writers of...
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Hilaire Belloc examines the five most destructive heretical movements to have affected Christian Civilization: Arianism, Mohammedanism (Islam), Albigensianism (Cathar), The Reformation (Protestant), and âThe Modern Phase.â...
âThese thirty-one pieces have the grace and delicacy proper to miniatures, as Mr. Belloc aptly calls them. Each runs to no more than a dozen pages, yet the author contrives within these narrow limits to paint a set of memorable pictures...
Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953)âone of the most prominent Catholic authors of his timeâgives a common sense explanation of why the Crusades were necessary, and why they ultimately failed. He argues that the personal and stra...
In this collection of short biographies Hilaire Belloc, one of the great Catholic historians of the twentieth century, shares his views on the principal characters of the Protestant Reformation, focusing primarily on those figures concerned with the event...