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Women and Pilgrimage in Medieval Galicia
For many in the Middle Ages, pilgrimages were seen to represent a clear risk of moral and religious perdition for women, and they were strongly discouraged from making them; this exhortation would have been universally disseminated and generally followed, except, of course, in the case of the virtuous ’extraordinary women’, such as saints and queens. Women and Pilgrimage in Medieval Galicia represents an analysis of the social history of women based on documentary sources and physical evidence, breaking away from literary and historiographical stereotypes, while at the same time contributing to a critical assessment of the myth that medieval women were kept hidden away from the world. As...
Guaraná
In this sweeping chronicle of guarana—a glossy-leaved Amazonian vine packed with more caffeine than any other plant—Seth Garfield develops a wide-ranging approach to the history of Brazil itself. The story begins with guarana as the pre-Columbian cultivar of the Satere-Mawe people in the Lower Amazon region, where it figured centrally in the Indigenous nation's origin stories, dietary regimes, and communal ceremonies. During subsequent centuries of Portuguese colonialism and Brazilian rule, guarana was reformulated by settlers, scientists, folklorists, food technologists, and marketers. Whether in search of pleasure, profits, professional distinction, or patriotic markers, promoters impa...
Justiça seja feita
Sydney Sanches, oriundo de família modesta do interior de São Paulo, começa a trabalhar em um cartório ainda garoto, apaixona-se pelo ofício e sonha ser magistrado. Em uma longa e meritória carreira de sucesso, vai de Pitangueiras (SP) a Brasília (DF). Subindo a pulso cada metro da corda profissional, o office boy de cartório interiorano torna-se ministro do Supremo Tribunal Federal (STF), chegando a presidir o impeachment de um presidente da República. E, ainda, leciona, escreve livros, dirige instituições de classe, integra conselhos, publica artigos, concede entrevistas, profere palestras. Alguém que observa a vida, reconhece a felicidade de existir e, acima de tudo, busca ser útil à sociedade e ao país.
