La España del Seiscientos

Bernal Díaz del Castillo (1492-1584) was a foot soldier in the army of Mexico's conqueror Hernán Cortés. The first edition of his True History of the Conquest of New Spain (as it was entitled in a later English translation) was published in Madrid in 1632 from a manuscript copy sent to Spain shortly after the author's death. Written in a highly accessible style, and describing the experiences of the troops themselves rather than seeing events from an officer's perspective, the work became even more successful than the official accounts and went through many editions and translations. The...

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Esta antología recaba testimonios en torno al descubrimiento cultural de los pueblos del Nuevo Mundo. Las fuentes, que van de 1492 al siglo XVIII y del estrecho de Magallanes a la isla de Nutka, incluyen a Colón, Vespuccio, Díaz del Castillo, Motolinía, el Inca Garcilaso y Moziño, quienes, junto a otros frailes, juristas, soldados y marineros, dan su testimonio directo de lo americano: el paisaje, los aborígenes, las mujeres, los dioses, las vestiduras, las virtudes, los vicios. Esta nueva edición, de la original de 1963, incluye prólogo de Pablo Escalante, bibliografía actualizada y ...

Este libro es producto de una reflexión que, sobre el departamento de Santander, promovió la Universidad. En este encuentro, donde participan diversas miradas, se le da continuidad al interés que tiene la institución por suscitar la reflexión y el análisis de la realidad que vive nuestro entorno, buscando aportar pensamiento al proceso de construcción de una sociedad que sueña con un mejor futuro.