This is a guide to an astronomical treatise of the ninth century, Aratea, given away by the University of Leiden and exhibited in the Museum. The book describes the manuscript, its place within Carolingian miniatures, and the importance of Phainomena de Aratus as text. The following chapters analyze the ancient...
This exhaustive and widely illustrated catalog focuses on the finest manuscripts illuminated and produced in Europe during the great era in Flemish Enlightenment. During this aesthetically fertile period (which began in 1467 with the reign of the Duke of Burgundy, Charles the Bold, and ended in 1561 with the death...
This book makes available to the reader a series of works dedicated to women of the viceregal America, women who were writers or protagonists of relevant events in the conquest of various territories of the region. Along with the studies dedicated to summits of colonial letters such as sor Juana...
This dictionary comes entirely from the dictionary published by Fray Alonso de Molina in 1571 with the title of Diccionario náhuatl-español Basado en los diccionarios de Alonso de Molina con el náhuatl normalizado y el español modernizado, whose importance has been pondered numerous times, besides being the main source of...
The feminine culture during the Colony is the subject that Josefina Muriel develops throughout this work. She gives plenty of data on those our ancestor women that were the transmitters, although placed in a second plane, of the cultural values that constituted their world. It presents these women by what...
The Novohispana Society made extensive use of credit. The ladies of the high society paid for the manufacture of their dresses in installments, the miners obtained advances from the merchants to exploit the mines, the stores of the towns supplied goods on credit, the workers of the haciendas and obrajes...
This grammar presents the different parts of the morphology, among its main characteristics; grants considerable attention to derivation and word composition processes; offering many examples. The texts used by the author as examples belong to the classic Spanish literature of the Códice florentino (Florentine Codex).
General history of things in Nueva España is an encyclopaedic work on the people and culture of central Mexico, compiled by Fray Bernardino de Sahagún (1499-1590), a Franciscan missionary who arrived in New Spain in 1529, eight years after the end of the Spanish conquest by Hernán Cortés. Commonly called...
The Catholic monarchy established its presence in the overseas territories on the basis of a high bureaucracy that − in the exercise of its profession− crossed all the territories of the empire. Viceroys, oidores, prosecutors, among other public officials passed through the Caribbean, the Philippines, Mexico, Central America and the...
Historiography has many paths marked out, but there are still new paths to draw. In the same way that historiography emphasizes some actors, it also forgets others. This is the case of the Pacific exploration: at the same time, as the crews lived the adventure of crossing the Pacific Ocean...
The occupation of the territory during the construction of the Spanish Empire was not only a movement carried out by European migrants who crossed the Atlantic to settle in the Caribbean and in the Spanish-American territories, there were also men who sailed from the coasts of the Viceroys, expressing the...
The viceroyalty of Peru was far from being a territory that projected its influence only on the Atlantic or the interior of the Andes. Since the sixteenth century, there was an interest in being present in strategic territories such as the transoceanic passage between the Atlantic and the Pacific. Mariners,...