La Coruña en los siglos XIII al XV

Sea europeo o amerindio, el hombre es considerado por los eclesiásticos del siglo XVI como un pecador manchado por la falta original e inclinado a la transgresión. Por eso, al emprender la conquista de las almas de los indígenas mexicanos, la Iglesia echa mano de una tradición de origen medieval, los exempla: cortas anécdotas de caracter moralizante. Los predicadores, especialmente los jesuitas, dan un nuevo impulso a este género literario como lo comprueba el análisis de sus sermones redactados en lengua náhuatl. Para deconstruir la lengua, los relatos y el universo mental de los...

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An Economist Best Book of the Year “Sweeping . . . an ambitious synthesis . . . [Evans] writes with admirable narrative power and possesses a wonderful eye for local color . . . Fascinating.”—Stephen Schuker, The Wall Street Journal From the bestselling author of The Third Reich at War, a masterly account of Europe in the age of its global hegemony; the latest volume in the Penguin History of Europe series Richard J. Evans, bestselling historian of Nazi Germany, returns with a monumental new addition to the acclaimed Penguin History of Europe series, covering the period from the fall of ...

Named the 2009 AAUP Best of the Best - Outstanding Book Distinction The history of Mexican Americans spans more than five centuries and varies from region to region across the United States. Yet most of our history books devote at most a chapter to Chicano history, with even less attention to the story of Chicanas. 500 Years of Chicana Women's History offers a powerful antidote to this omission with a vivid, pictorial account of struggle and survival, resilience and achievement, discrimination and identity. The bilingual text, along with hundreds of photos and other images, ranges from...