El antiguo Oriente

Perhaps the opening paragraph from Paul Larson¿s (Baylor University) prologue to the Epistola ad Mahomatem II summarizes what this new Scripta Humanistica volume has to offer to readers of literature and history alike: ¿This new scholarly edition certainly begs the question: how can a fifteenth century letter from the then Pope Pius II to the Muslim conqueror of Constantinople have any relevance for contemporary scholars and students in the early 21st century? Embroiled as we are in chaotic and tumultuous religious and political conflict in Europe and the Middle East, perhaps the answer is...

El pueblo de Blanca (Murcia) antiguamente se llamo Negra. Para entender el cambio de Negra en Blanca tenemos que concebir primeramente la vida de la reina dona Blanca de Borbon. Hasta ahora la unica monografia en un libro que se ha escrito sobre la reina dona Blanca de Borbon ha sido un librito de 80 paginas del Dr. Juan Antonio Martinez Gomez-Gordo (1924-2013), medico de profesion y alumno predilecto del doctor don Gregorio Maranon. Por ultimo, podemos mencionar al gran investigador Luis Vicente Diaz Martin (1946-2000), uno de los mejores expertos sobre el rey Pedro I el Cruel, quien...

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Esta colección de ensayos del premio nacional de historia 2006 viene a dar cuenta del progreso intelectual que ha tenido Gabriel Salazar a lo largo de los últimos treinta y cinco años de escritura sobre la historia y el sentido de su oficio. Gabriel Salazar ha sido durante los últimos treinta años uno de los más relevantes e imprescindibles expositores de la Nueva Historia Social, una corriente de historiadores que procuraron una nueva interpretación de los procesos políticos, económicos y sociales ocurridos en Chile durante los siglos XIX y XX. Con su trabajo superaron los límites...