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The results of the Brexit referendum that took place in the UK on June 23rd, 2016, have had impacts that go beyond the realm of politics. They have also had educational repercussions on the already problematic situationof the studyof Modern Foreign Languages. Furthermore, it could also affect the way that people understand the importance and benefits of studying and speaking other languages. There are several factors that have an influence on the number of people that study foreign languages, and these range from thetraditional to the managerial. This article aims at providing some insights and possible solutions to the dire panorama of Modern Foreign Languages within the existing constraints.

Thanks to the Toledo School Europe rediscovered some long-lost classical texts which form the basis of Western culture. In its cultural enterprise, the School went beyond the mere act of translating: its scholars produced new texts based on those translations and medieval chronologies and King Alfonso’s General Estoria (GE) is an example of this. One of the medieval texts that Alfonso used for the composition of his GE was Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Historia regum Britanniae, a pseudo-historical account of the creation and development of the British Isles. This article analyses three short paragraphs of the original work (the original text had some propagandistic features) and how they were translated and adapted into emerging Castilian and to what extent these Alfonsine adaptations also contain some propaganda features.

El caballo forma parte de la historia de la humanidad y la literatura ha reflejado su importancia de varias formas. En la tradición celta, las descripciones decaballos son abundantes. Esta comunicación pretende analizar la figura del caballo en algunos textos medievales galeses así como su importancia en la tradición galesa y su influencia en la literatura española actual

Aunque los textos que conforman la literatura artúrica no suelen presentar rasgos fabulescos, sino, más bien, mitológicos, algunas narraciones artúricas usan características propias de las fábulas para desarrollar sus ideas moralistas. Este artículo se centra en el estudio de un texto medieval galés y uno contemporáneo en inglés para demostrar cómo se hace uso y aplican las técnicas de la fábula a la leyenda artúrica.

Mithraism is one of the most mysterious religions in the World. In fact, it was a mystery, a cult where initiates were supposed to remain silent about it to the profanes. These cults also offered the promise of eternal salvation them. Little is known about Mithras and its cult, and so it remains more than a mystery. We could say almost the same about Arthuriana and some of its most important characters: they are a mystery in History, Folklore and Literature. However, British author Bernard Cornwell has mixed up both mysteries into one in his thrilling and mind-boggling trilogy The Warlord Chronicles, published between 1996 and 1998. This kaleidoscopic trilogy retells Arthur's deeds and mi series from the moment his nephew Mordred is born until his final departure to Camlann, through the eyes of his best friend, Derfel Cadarn, a Mithraist. Derfel shows how Christianity triumphs over the rest of the pagan religions, most of the times with no fair play. The aim of this paper is to show how some of the actions in the trilogy symbolise the death of Paganism, the mystery of Mithras included, and the final triumph of Christianity.

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