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Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title Fire in the Plaça is the first full-length study in English of the Patum, a Corpus Christi fire festival unique to Berga, Catalonia, Spain, celebrated annually since the seventeenth century. Participants in the festival are transformed through drink, sleep deprivation, crowding, constant motion, and the smoke and sparks of close-range firecrackers into passionate members of a precarious body politic. Combining richly layered symbolism with intense bodily expression, the Patum has long served as a grassroots equivalent of grand social theory; it moves from a representation of social divisions to a forcible communion among them. The...
Recull de més de tres-cents goigs marians de totes les èpoques del Bisbat de Solsona, la majoria en català i alguns en castellà. No hi ha inclosos tan sols els goigs pròpiament dits, sinó també les cobles i lloances marianes diverses, com ara els himnes, virolais, cançons que es canten més o menys dins el temple.
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