My BOOKS
Andres de Poza
This book includes numbers 12 and 13 of the magazine Vulcanius of which she is the founder and director.
The book focuses on Andrés de Poza, an enigmatic figure from the 16th century. The article is dense and is aimed at the general public but also at philologists and historians. It is the result of many years of research in which I provide new data about this lawyer, philologist, scientist, soldier or perhaps it is easier to say, this multifaceted man born in a century of change who drank from different cultures but did not fit into any of them. Maybe that's exactly what attracts me most about him.
Impasse
Numbers 16 and 17 of the magazine Vulcanius include the translation of the book Impasse by Steven de Bastelier. The author was a psychologist, psychopathologist and criminologist. He was a professor at the University of Leuven. Throughout his life, De Batselier stood out for his innovative work in the social and psychiatric field.
In Impasse the author investigates the psychopathological syndrome of the normal man and its five interrelated symptoms: sadomasochism as the basis of love life, the master-slave relationship as the basis of work life, relationships instead of friendships as the basis of social life, moral indignation as the basis of our scale of values, uninhabitability of the body as a response to a dehumanized world. The book was published in 1973 and saw several reissues, the last in 1988 in the form of a trilogy.
Women who raised their voices
Women who raised their voices is a tribute to those who decided to join forces and offer a supportive, intense and very original path. When reading this book you have to go back in time and place yourself in the time of the crusades, the abandonment of the countryside and the growth of cities.
As a former researcher at the "Institute of Basque Studies" I was lucky enough to start in the field of historical research realizing that history is in some way fiction, especially when it comes to the history of the "voiceless". As they were mystical women who faced the power of the Church, there are few vestiges of them; in fact, Margarita Porete was burned at the stake along with her books. Religion belongs today to the world of men, which is why it is important to discover how the Beguines decided to support each other, educate themselves and care for each other, forming independent communities that subsisted for 8 centuries. There was no need to pronounce votes, nor reject private property. They worked to earn their bread, combining contemplative life with social action and their motto was joy in working. Some of them were the initiators of writing in their native language, that is, the first writers in the vernacular language of their respective countries.