Corsarios españoles

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The Lingua Ignota, "brought forth" by the twelfth-century German nun Hildegard of Bingen, provides 1012 neologisms for praise of Church and new expression of the things of her world. Noting her visionary metaphors, her music, and various medieval linguistic philosophies, Higley examines how the "Unknown Language" makes arid signifiers green again. This text, however, is too often seen in too narrow a context: glossolalia, angelic language, secret code. Higley provides an edition and English translation of its glosses in the Riesencodex (with assistance from the Berlin MS) , but also places it ...

El presente libro tiene todas las características de un manual de textos básicos para la introducción de la Historia de América de habla española, en dos períodos cronológicos, bien delimitados, como son: por una parte, la América Prehispánica; y por otra, las bases socio-económicas e ideológicas de la colonización española en el otro lado del Atlántico.

Artes, ciencias y letras en la America colonial es una obra colectiva, abierta e incompleta, al igual que la tarea de conformacion de una autentica comunidad cultural latinoamericana. Los presentes volumenes, que recogen investigaciones presentadas en el simposio homonimo celebrado en Buenos Aires en 2005, recrean de un modo variopinto -que es tambien elocuente sobre la diversidad de enfoques disciplinarios posibles- la evolucion de la cultura colonial latinoamericana y constituyen una importante herramienta para comprender las causas tanto de algunos aspectos erraticos del presente regional...