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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...

This book deals with the evangelization of Spanish-speaking America between the European conquest and independence. The study investigates the concepts and strategies of catechesis, the general conditions of Church law and national politics as well as the prerequisites and conditions on the part of the Indians. New and specific forms of mutual understanding, of mediation and resistance developed through the transfer of European knowledge to a second geographical area and through the contact of cultures and religions. These new forms evolved beyond the sphere of religion and determine cultural ...

En estas memorias se combina un rigor ensayístico en el análisis del contradictorio proceso histórico de la República Democrática Alemana (RDA), con una amenidad singular que surge de significativas anécdotas de la vida del autor como estudiante de literatura alemana y dramaturgia en Leipzig, y como practicante en el Berliner Ensemble, el mundialmente famoso teatro fundado por Bertolr Breche. En la primera parte se analizan graves contradicciones entre los intereses de la ex URSS y la RDA. No obstante, las vivencias del autor y las relaciones sexuales, amorosas y amistosas que vivía la ...