Esta biografía, que firma Hilaire Belloc, explora la vida del poeta John Milton, su carrera literaria y las controversias políticas y religiosas que galvanizaron su época. Publicada en 1935, la obra ofrece tanto una certera crí...
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 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...
RESTAURACION DE LA PROPIEDAD, LA. "Este Ensayo sobre la Restauración de la Propiedad que se presenta aquí al lector, requiere algunas líneas para evitar que sea mal interpretado. Se advertirá que no trato el tema de una...
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,...
Monarchy-or Plutocracy? This is the rousing question Hilaire Belloc placed before his readers in this masterly 1938 work. Belloc, grown old, saw the revolutionary dreams of his youth were naive. The great liberal insurrections, which supposedly led to...
Europe and the Faith "Sine auctoritate nulla vita" by Hilaire Belloc delves into the profound and inseparable relationship between the Catholic Church and European civilization. Belloc challenges modern interpretations of history that treat Christianity...
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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...
Excellent analysis of how the Catholic faith transformed the Roman Empire into the Christendom of the Middle Ages. Many modern historians frame this as a "fall" of the Empire and something new rising to take its place, but Belloc makes a good...
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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...
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...
Hilaire Belloc examines the five most destructive heretical movements to have affected Christian Civilization: Arianism, Mohammedanism (Islam), Albigensianism (Cathar), The Reformation (Protestant), and "The Modern Phase." Belloc describes how...
Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953)--one of the most prominent Catholic authors of his time--gives a common sense explanation of why the Crusades were necessary, and why they ultimately failed. He argues that the personal and strategic failings of the First Crusad...
Belloc cited the many beliefs and theological principles which Islam shares with Catholicism. Where Islam decisively diverges from Catholicism (and Christianity in general) is the "denial of the Incarnation and all the sacramental life of the Church...