El Castillo de San Severino: im‡genes de historia

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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La historia, la de España o cualquier otra, es una sucesión de acontecimientos que no cobra sentido hasta que el lector se detiene y reflexiona. La historia, la de España o cualquier otra, es una sucesión de acontecimientos que no cobra sentido hasta que el lector se detiene y reflexiona. Solo entonces advierte que hay sectores e intereses políticos, sociales y económicos que, camuflados en instituciones, sociedades o confesiones que parecen existir desde siempre, pretenden conservar a toda costa el poder y la hegemonía que en el pasado obtuvieron frente a la exigencia de igualdad,...

Cuban intellectual Roberto Regalado provides a critical analysis of the issues facing Latin America today. He examines the political crises, the emerging social movements on the continent that are spearheading international resistance to neoliberalism-from the water struggles in Bolivia to the landless movement in Brazil-and considers alternative options for development.