El despertar de Europa

El "escritocentrismo" en el que vive el lector contemporáneo le dificulta comprender que la invención de la imprenta, hacia 1440, no acabó de tajo con la antigua práctica de leer en voz alta. La estudiosa extrae de diversas fuentes indicios de las maneras en las que el grueso de la población española se vinculaba con los textos en esa época singular en que la obra capital de Cervantes salía a la luz y cuya divulgación se dio, sin duda, de manera frecuentemente oral. En contraste, nos ofrece un retrato del autor del Quijote leyendo en silencio, preferencia que compartía con su...

Profiles nine important figures in the history of México including the Emperor Montezuma, Hernán Cortés, Benito Juárez, and Cuauhtemoc, the last Aztec ruler of Tenochtitlán.

In 1565, Pedro Menendez De Aviles sailed to Florida and fulfilled his duty to Phillip II by recapturing Frances's primary settlement, Fort Caroline, and executing the Fort's commander, Jean Ribault, along with his men. This work was based on the study of the key chroniclers and their writings.

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