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The first part is known as Hispania Victrix; the second part is titled Historia de la conquista de México. The defense that the author adopted through his work in the two parts is due to his political project: The figure of Hernán Cortés is the culmination of the great theopolitical...
Esta obra es la reproducción facsimilar, junto con una versión castellana, del más antiguo texto impreso acerca de la Universidad de México, escrito muy poco después de que esa institución inaugurara solemnemente sus cursos el día 3 de junio de 1553. Proporciona noticias sobre sus varias cátedras y quienes las...
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...
With this English title America: being an accurate description of the New World, 1671: containing the origin of the inhabitants; the remarkable voyages thither: the conquest of the vast empires of Mexico and Peru, their ancient and later vvars. With their several plantations, many, and rich islands; their cities, fortresses,...
In the Golden Age the devil became one more creature in the list of recurring characters in the golden genres, such as the gallant, the clown or the villain. This collection of seven articles brings some approaches to the presence and functioning of the devil in different literary genres and...
The Biblioteca Áurea Digital (BIADIG) (Digital Golden Library (BIADIG)), part of GRISO's digital publications, has an extraordinary new book. This is the volume edited by Martina Vinatea and Álvaro Baraibar Viajes y ciudades míticas (Travels and mythical cities). The topics covered are various: chronicles, travel books, holiday relation (descriptions of...
During the old regime, in the Hispanic scope, there were many institutions and foundations, promoted and supported by the civil society, that had a religious purpose, while they performed an important economic and social function. Among them were the brotherhoods, the pious works and the chaplaincies for the Mass. The...
When we think on the economy of the American viceroyalties, we consider immediately the extraction of natural resources and the creation of new enterprises or industries in the New World. Few scholars, except persons like María del Pilar Martínez López-Cano, have taken the responsibility of studying how credit was the...