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...
This book analyzes and interprets the historical memory produced by naturalists, geographers, engineers and others (from the mid-18th century to 1940). These professionals propitiate the creation of institutions and the organization of research projects related to geography and natural history. . Throughout the text, the heterogeneity of the conceptions about...
Within the framework of the Anthology of Burlesque Literature of the Golden Age, undertaken from the project Identidades y alteridades. La burla como diversión y arma social en la literatura y cultura del Siglo de Oro (FFI2017-82532-P, MICINN / AEI / FEDER, UE), this volume is dedicated to the materials...
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This collective volume brings together a dozen works focused on three thematic lines: transatlantic journeys, the chronicles of the Indies and the colonial epic poetry, which are approached from different critical and interdisciplinary perspectives. They are analyzed from general aspects like the necessity of a pertinent philological annotation of the...
This pioneering book written by our colleague Gisela von Wobeser studies the transformation of the Mexican landscape with the introduction of European agriculture. To do this, she explains the control of two fundamental components: land and water. As usual, von Wobeser works with a large and well-chosen selection of archival...