Miré los muros de la patria mía y la tradición poética de las ruinas
The sonnet Mire los muros de la patria mia by Quevedo has traditionally been read from two main perspectives. The first dwells upon the spiritual concept of death and the author's reflections upon this subject. The second reading puts political aspects rather than spiritual reflections at the forefront and presents the poem as a reflection of the decadence of Spain under the reign of the Austrias. This article is not a new reading but rather an analysis of the symbol of ruins in the poem, which reconciles the two principal interpretations of the poem.
«Miré los muros de la patria mía» y la reescritura en Quevedo
Este trabajo aborda la interpretacion del soneto "Mire los muros de la patria mia" a partir de los usos que Quevedo hizo de los terminos muros y patria en el resto de su obra, y tambien a partir de las concordancias detectadas con otros textos quevedianos que desarrollan los mismos lugares comunes.
Bodies Politic : Disease , Death and Doctors in Britain , 1650-1900
In spite of its intellectual, literary and comic brilliance, this book contains a dark and disturbing, but revealing, message. In some ways, my melancholy reading of Bodies Politic has inevitably been shaped by Roy's recent untimely death. Roy Porter was without doubt the finest social historian of medicine this country, or indeed the world, has produced. Expansive, humorous, intelligent, and incisive, his broad range of historical works has excited and educated several generations of students of history over the past thirty years. His death leaves an unfillable void within the global history of medicine. At the same time, however, this book itself, completed well before his death, is haunted by elements of despair and uncertainty that should make us carefully reconsider not only the purpose and direction of our professional inquiries but also our own mortality.