Antigüedades y excelencias de la Villa de Carmona

These papers are centered on the Crown of Aragon in the later Middle Ages, its achievements (the more remarkable given the very evident problems with which it was beset), and especially on its role in the Mediterranean. Hence the emphasis on Majorca, its leading intellectual figure, Ramon Lull (1232-1316), and his influence, and related to these the article on Thomas Aquinas. Other studies deal with the relations of Christians and Jews in Majorca, down to the Expulsion from Spain. In these papers Professor Hillgarth seeks to investigate the transmission of learning and how what is transmitted ...

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Por mucho tiempo ha quedado la historia electoral latinoamericana prisionera de una leyenda negra seg n la cual la representaci n pol tica moderna fue fundamentalmente un fracaso. Las causas que se indican Para explicar este fen meno son conocidas: caudillos, guerras civiles, dominaci n externa, cultura heterog nea y corrupci n, entre otras. Los trabajos reunidos en este volumen ense an que esa visi n oscura fue principalmente el resultado de un espejismo cultural.

Este libro propone una lectura pausada y distanciada de lo moro en su pasado histórico y en el devenir mediterráneo, así como inquiere en las lógicas de la alteridad, tantas veces invocadas y escasamente analizadas con justeza fenomenológica y antropológica. Una obra sumamente oportuna cuyo contenido se muestra comprometido con la actualidad. [Texto de la editorial].