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El Mediterráneo del Renacimiento a la Ilustración
The course The Mediterranean, a Space of Exchange (from Renaissance to Enlightenment) aims to explain the Mediterranean, using history and the analysis of the past, as a space generated by routes and circulation. We consider it crucial to disclose mobility as a historical factor: a mobility comprised of four major elements, namely people, objects, ideas and practices. In our analysis of Mediterranean reality between the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment, we will pay particular attention to its western shores, an area seething with transfers and exchanges, in the social and economic spheres as well as the political and cultural, with the Iberian Peninsula, the various islands and the Italian Peninsula, all spaces of great dynamism.
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Cómo los historiadores han visto el Mediterráneo
39 Flashcards I Recorded in this Course:
And in today's lesson
Y en la lección de hoy
Surprising as it may seem
Por sorprendente que pueda parecer
the substantive use
el uso sustantivo
The first use was in the seventh century
El primero en emplearlo fue en el siglo séptimo
as people bathed in its waters
como pueblos se bañaban en sus aguas
For the Jews of antiquity
Para los judíos de la antigüedad
in a tone certainly imperialist
con un tono ciertamente imperialista
As we will see soon
Como veremos enseguida
still we have reason to wonder
todavía hoy tenemos motivos para preguntarnos
Therefore before discussing historians
Por ello antes de hablar de los historiadores
what are we talking about when
de qué hablamos cuando
In answering this question
Al responder a esta pregunta
whose economy depends somehow on the sea
cuya economía depende de algún modo del mar
Although sometimes
Aunque en ocasiones
which are further away from its waters
que se encuentren alejadas de sus aguas
a set of port cities joined together by multiple exchanges
un conjunto de ciudades portuarias unidas entre sí por múltiples intercambios
Of course
Por supuesto
In fact
De hecho
according to their geography you can speak of a single Mediterranean
atendiendo a su geografía se puede hablar de un único Mediterráneo
as stated in the well-known song
como reza la conocida canción
Or maybe on the contrary
O quizá por el contrario
separated by the Strait of Sicily
separados entre sí por el estrecho de Sicilia
Moreover we might have to talk about
Más aun quizá tendríamos que hablar de
namely the sea that was historically under the area of influence
es decir el mar que históricamente estuvo bajo el área de influencia
we might have to split it differently
quizá tendríamos que dividirlo de manera diferente
and instead of dividing it by east and west
y en vez de dividir oriente y occidente
perhaps there is a
quizá hay un
an evocative idea with many meanings
una idea evocadora de múltiples significados
nor is it a place completely alien to Europe
ni tampoco un espacio completamente ajeno a Europa
On the one hand
Por un lado
the heart
el corazón
the place was conceived
el lugar donde se gestó
But at the same time
Pero al mismo tiempo
disproportionate
desmesurado
supposedly
supuestamente
is located
se encuentra
halfway between us and them
a medio camino entre el nosotros y el ellos
between progress and backwardness
entre el progreso y el atraso
between development and underdevelopment
entre el desarrollo y el subdesarrollo