Artes, ciencias y letras en la América colonial

" Cada día se generaliza más la tendencia a estudiar el Neolítico con ejemplos cuidadosamente seleccionados. Sociedades de cazadores, agricultores, mineros, etc., desfilan por las páginas de este libro. ¿Cómo estudiar estos modelos? La Historia no sólo es posible conocerla a través de documentos, en este caso arqueológicos; las excavaciones " " resucitan " " comunidades aldeanas, permitiéndonos contemplar sus casa, sus objetos y sus instrumentos de trabajo. "

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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El libro reúne una cuidadosa selección de documentos, ordenanzas, cartas y todo tipo de relaciones administrativas que nos ilustran no solamente de las dotes organizativas del conquistador, sino del sutil y agudo sentido de la estrategia política que Hernán Cortés puso al servicio de la consolidación del poder y el dominio españoles en los primeros años de la Colonia.