La hora de Dios en el Nuevo Mundo

Tal es el grado de desconocimiento de nuestra historia naval que el simple título de este trabajo parecerá a muchos una contradicción, porque el sustantivo ‘corsario’ no puede ir acompañado del gentilicio ‘español’. A consolidar esta percepción, ha contribuido la imagen acuñada por la literatura y el cine. Al contrario, como esperamos demostrar en estas páginas, en España hubo numerosos corsarios y de gran éxito. Conviene aclarar que un corsario era algo muy diferente de un pirata. El corsario se trataba de un particular que, por las razones que fuesen, había obtenido una...

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute...

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...