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A new book by professor Varela Rodríguez on worship to saint James
Professor Varela Rodríguez has just published the volume: Más allá del Códice Calixtino. Otros textos en torno a Santiago el Mayor hasta el siglo XII (Santiago de Compostela, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, 2024). This book contains a collection of texts or excerpts of texts relevant to the understanding of the worship on saint James, from its earliest origins up to the year 1200. The texts are presented in their original version, along with their corresponding translation and commentary. Several of the texts are published here for the first time. A comprehensive literary and historical introduction completes the study.
An article in The Classical Quarterly
The journal Classical Quarterly (Cambridge University Press) has just published in its 78th volume the article by Professor Cecilia Criado entitled “The Guilt of Cadmus the Farmer in Statius’ Thebaid”, which can be accessed openly at...
A medical treatise from the late 16th century is published, with the collaboration of Professor Ruiz Pérez
The Peter Lang publishing house in Berlin has just brought to light the edition with introduction and notes of a work of medical content published in 1597: La conservación de la salud del cuerpo y del alma, by the doctor and professor at the University of Salamanca,...
De Gruyter publishes the Proceedings of the 21st International Colloquium on Latin Linguistics
These volumes contain a selection of contributions first presented at the 21st International Colloquium on Latin Linguistics, held in Santiago de Compostela (2022). They cover essential topics in Latin linguistics from a variety of theoretical and methodological...
PUBLICATION OF THE VERSION NUMBER 20 OF THE CORPUS DOCUMENTALE LATINUM GALLAECIAE (CODOLGA) AND THE FIRST VERSION OF THE FONTES TEXTUAIS DA GALICIA MEDIEVAL (FONTEGAM)
The Corpus Documentale Latinum Gallaeciae (CODOLGA) project has just published version number 20 of its textual database. This project is directed by USC Professor of Latin Philology Xosé Carracedo Fraga and has been developed for almost 30 years within the framework...
New bilingual edition of Virgil’s Aeneid, by retired professor Dulce Estefanía
The edition of the translation, accompanied by a comprehensive introduction and an extensive apparatus of notes, is particularly useful as it is bilingual. The colour illustrations from the Codex Vaticanus latinus 3225 add to the value of the volume.
Susana Dubois Silva defended her doctoral thesis, with the title “Léxico de El rapto de Helena de Coluto”
On March 15th, Susana Dubois Silva defended her doctoral thesis, with the title "Léxico de El rapto de Helena de Coluto", under the direction of Helena Rodríguez Somolinos, from the CSIC and with María Teresa Amado Rodríguez, USC, as a tutor. She obtained the highest...