Episodio 61 Los Reyes Vikingos de Inglaterra

Arthur Schopenhauer fue uno de los primerosfilósofos de la tradición occidental en compartir y afirmar principiosfundamentales de la filosofía india, como el ascetismo, la negación del yo y lanoción del mundo como apariencia. León Tolstói afirmó sobre Schopenahuer «Actualmente es ...  Show more

Thích Nhất Hạnh fue unmonje budista zen, escritor, poeta y activista por la paz vietnamita, un prolífico autor, con más de 100 libros publicados, muchos de ellos traducidos a numerosos idiomas.Fue un influyente maestro budista, conocido por su promoción del nindfulness y el budis ...  Show more

Scandinavia has always been a world apart. For millennia Norwegians, Danes, Finns, and Swedes lived a remote and rugged existence among the fjords and peaks of the land of the midnight sun. But when they finally left their homeland in search of opportunity, these wanderers—includ ...  Show more

Vikings were addicted to silver; they collected it as coins, as ingots, arm-rings, jewellery. On one Swedish island alone archaeologists and metal detectorists found some 200,000 silver coins and there is a silver hoard there for almost every Viking farm. Why? What can the coins, ...  Show more

Gordon Campbell reveals how the Vikings made epic voyages of discovery across the Atlantic a millennium ago    The argument over whether Norse explorers settled in North America a millennium ago has raged for two centuries, pitting Protestants against Catholics, Native Americans ...  Show more

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Volga Vikings. Between the 8th and the 10th centuries AD, fierce Scandinavian warriors raided and then settled large swathes of Europe, particularly Britain, Ireland and parts of northern France. These were the Vikings, and their story is w ...  Show more