In the Old World, from the beginning of Christianity, the Virgin Mary and the martyrs were assumed to be intermediaries between God and mankind, and from the Middle Ages onwards, certain pious practices related to the saints and the divinity were incorporated: the veneration of their objects or anatomical parts...
This book presents a study and critical edition of the poem Obra nuevamente compuesta... (1571) by Bartolomé de Flores, considered the first poem in Spanish about North America and the only poetic testimony to Pedro Menéndez de Avilés's victory over the French Huguenots in Florida in 1565. The poem offers...
This book offers fifteen essays with different orientations on the influence of the Greco-Roman tradition on the cultural and political activity of viceregal Peru, from its arts, letters and philosophy, to its jurisprudence and historiography. According to Teodoro Hampe, «what is peculiar about the reception of classical culture in America...
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The «pueblo de indios» was the socio-political, religious and territorial organisation into which the indigenous settlements were transformed during the New Spain regime. Their layout was often distributed along a river and on one side of the hills of pre-Hispanic sacredness, as can be seen in the paintings that depicted...
In the Hispanic monarchy, the most accurate data for the reconstruction of climatic events, and even to generate climatic series, were the records of the rogativa ceremonies, recorded in the acts of the civil and ecclesiastical councils of the bishop's sees. These ceremonies were based on rites or public acts...
Gracias a sus editores, Juan Montero Delgado (Universidad de Sevilla) y Antonio Sánchez Jiménez (Université de Neuchâtel), el poema épico-satírico Beltraneja cierra el año 2020 con una feliz noticia. Se trata de la edición más completa, tanto por su esmerada ecdótica del texto como por el notable estudio que lo antecede....
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Raúl Marrero-Fente, Poesía épica colonial del siglo XVI. Historia, teoría y práctica, Madrid/Frankfurt am Main, Iberoamericana/Vervuert, 2017. ISBN: 978-84- 16922-34- 5 This book offers the most extensive study published so far on colonial epic poetry of the XVI century. This poetic genre of medieval tradition is renewed during the conquest...