Historia de la conquista de México

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...

Este libro no es una biografía más del "Rey romántico", sino un estudio en profundidad de la época -crucial en nuestra historia contemporánea- que se abre con los prolegómenos de la revolución de 1868 y se cierra con los inicios de la regencia de Doña María Cristina de Austria, una época contemplada en esta obra tanto en su dimensión política, como en sus aspectos sociales y culturales, y que culmina en la figura y el reinado del "Pacificador". Durante el reinado de Alfonso XII las viejas tensiones y los pronunciamientos del periodo isabelino quedaron desplazados por la...

Los trabajos reunidos en este volumen examinan la experiencia vivida de sujetos que haciendo justicia- administrándola, suplicando por ella, reclamándola o imaginándola- en escenarios y periodos diversos, retratan la profunda unidad que liga el quehacer judicial- lego, letrado, civil, militar o eclesiástico- con la historia de la organiadión política de los territorios del Río de la Plata desde 1580 hasta finales del siglo XIX.'

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