Discurso Sobre La Historia Uniuersal: Para Explicar La Continuacion de la Religion Y Las Varias Mutaciones de Los Imperios ...

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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...

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El "escritocentrismo" en el que vive el lector contemporáneo le dificulta comprender que la invención de la imprenta, hacia 1440, no acabó de tajo con la antigua práctica de leer en voz alta. La estudiosa extrae de diversas fuentes indicios de las maneras en las que el grueso de la población española se vinculaba con los textos en esa época singular en que la obra capital de Cervantes salía a la luz y cuya divulgación se dio, sin duda, de manera frecuentemente oral. En contraste, nos ofrece un retrato del autor del Quijote leyendo en silencio, preferencia que compartía con su...

Este libro reúne las reflexiones de un conjunto de medievalistas europeos sobre algunos casos significativos de las distintas trayectorias seguidas por la historiografía del mundo rural medieval en sus países respectivos. Esta aproximación internacional proporciona una visión más profunda de cuáles han sido las relaciones de los estudios rurales medievales con otros debates en las ciencias sociales y resalta las conexiones entre las distintas tradiciones históricas nacionales y los problemas del presente de cada una de estas sociedades. La comparación entre diferentes regiones...