Cosmopolitismo y nacionalismo

Perhaps the opening paragraph from Paul Larson¿s (Baylor University) prologue to the Epistola ad Mahomatem II summarizes what this new Scripta Humanistica volume has to offer to readers of literature and history alike: ¿This new scholarly edition certainly begs the question: how can a fifteenth century letter from the then Pope Pius II to the Muslim conqueror of Constantinople have any relevance for contemporary scholars and students in the early 21st century? Embroiled as we are in chaotic and tumultuous religious and political conflict in Europe and the Middle East, perhaps the answer is...

Ciudad Juarez lies just across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas. A once-thriving border town, it now resembles a failed state. Infamously known as the place where women disappear, its murder rate exceeds that of Baghdad. Last year 1,607 people were killed, a number that is on pace to increase in 2009. In Murder City, Charles Bowden, one of the few journalists who has spent extended periods of time in Juarez, has written an extraordinary account of what happens when a city disintegrates. Interweaving stories of its inhabitants, a raped beauty queen, a repentant hitman, a journalist fleeing...

How did Spanish America influence the creation of an independent Brazil? In the six studies that this book contains, Joao Paulo Pimenta covers several points of contact between the Hispanic and Luso-American revolutionary processes in an attempt to show that the reciprocal parallelisms imply an erroneous separation of the two movements which are actually just one

A finales del XIX, el francés Monet con su cuadro “Soleil levant, Impresión” abre la puerta a un nuevo estilo que va a dominar Europa durante más de medio siglo. En esta primera exposición impresionista (1874) acompañan a Manet otros autores que van a dirigir este estilo, como Renoir o Degas. Esta nueva corriente pictórica pretende reproducir la apariencia meramente transitoria de los objetos destacada por la luz y los reflejos de los cuerpos en el mismo momento en que son contemplados. El estilo se extenderá luego por toda Europa con gran éxito y marcará una etapa incuestionable ...