Historia, lenguaje y teoría de la sociedad

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...

The volume is a collection of papers held at a conference devoted to the in-depth study of the history of the Roman-Iberian relationship against the backdrop of ecclesiastical and cultural structures of the Iberian Peninsula, which in many cases took on new forms in the course of the Reconquista and the consolidation of the country. The recently intensified focus on questions concerning the relationship between Rome as "center" and its European "peripheries" through research on Iberian papal documents opens up new perspectives.

Manual de historia que presenta de manera clara, sencilla y amena a los 101 villanos más importantes de la historia de México, verdaderos truhanes de nuestro pasado histórico y reciente. Los 101 villanos en la historia de México han sido colocados en el orden cronológico de los hechos, lo que permite recorrer la historia de México desde la época prehispánica hasta finales de la década de los cuarenta, transitando del lado en el que circulan los traidores, los ambiciosos, los desleales, los corruptos, los abusivos, los dictadores, los tibios, los apáticos, los cobardes, los bandidos...

«Mi mayor frustración es no ser un sociópata. Creo que no soy el único. Son las figuras dominantes de la televisión y casi no hay género televisivo que esté a salvo de su presencia.» Adam Kotsko