La España del Seiscientos

Baschet tuvo la notable idea de "estudiar la Edad Media en tierras americanas". Su esfuerzo por ofrecer una historia de larga duraci n y mostrar c mo una de las fuentes de la historia de M xico es la historia medieval europea, dio como resultado una obra de gran originalidad y amplios alcances. el autor plantea preguntas fundamentales: c mo definir el feudalismo?, puede hablarse de feudalismo en Am rica Latina?, se trata de un feudalismo tard o y dependiente?, con cuyas respuestas renueva ambas historias, la americana y la europea, la primera a trav s del pasado y la segunda, del porvenir.

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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De los toltecas ancestrales hasta los aztecas, la mayoría de los historiadores dejaban casi en blanco cinco largos siglos (del VIII al XIII) que poco a poco empiezan a ser ocupados por la hegemonía de Culhuacán, sitio al pie del Cerro de la Estrella, en el valle de México. Las excavaciones realizadas por la autora en aquel lugar entre 1958 y 1962 llenan ese hiato e iluminan el papel central de la cultura culhua. Más de cien páginas de ilustraciones justifican el texto fundamental de Laurette Séjourné.