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En la última década se ha producido una excelente historiografía sobre el impacto de la revolución haitiana en la política esclavista y antiesclavista de Cuba y el Caribe; la importancia militar, económica y cultural de los africanos para la construcción del Atlántico ibérico; y el uso por parte de los esclavizados de las leyes coloniales para procurar la libertad. Lo mismo, sin embargo, no se puede decir del campo de estudios literarios, que, en los quince años transcurridos desde el imponente libro Modernity Disavowed: Haiti and the Cultures of Slavery in the Age of Revolution de Sibylle Fischer, no ha producido semejante innovación.

The paper presents a novel approach towards the analysis of a classic Spanish 20th century novel, Five Hours with Mario by Miguel Delibes. The author of the paper proposes two interpretative frameworks, of which The Moral Foundations Theory developed recently by Jonathan Haidt is the main one, and Karl Popper's concept of the open and closed society, a complementary one. The interdisciplinary reading of Delibes' masterpiece should help students and scholars revive and update their relationship to this worthwhile piece of fiction, as well as provide them with theoretical tools for an in-depth understanding of the differences between the moral outlook of liberals and conservatives, tools applicable both on the level of fiction, as well as in reality.

ABSTRACT:The economic and political dimensions of guilds in medieval Flanders, especially medieval Ghent, have been well studied for generations. It is often noted that guilds were more than work organizations, and that their religious and social activities made them very like confraternities, but exploring the cultural and ideological side of guilds can be hampered by less surviving evidence. The present article attempts to address this lacuna by using poems written by/for the masons' guild in fifteenth-century Ghent, taking an interdisciplinary perspective to examine ideals of community, hierarchy and the sacralization of labour from an urban perspective.