Esplendores y miserias de la evangelizacion de America

Esta recopilación de artículos, organizada de manera coherente y unitaria, aborda un problema fundamental en la historia económica más reciente, el desarrollo de los sistemas de mercados y de intercambio comercial en la Baja Edad Media. Lo hace desde el observatorio del Aragón de los siglos XIV y XV, un espacio político, social y económico mediterráneo que cuenta con fuentes privilegiadas para realizar este examen. Contempla también el libro diversos problemas vinculados a este proceso de cambio social y expansión mercantil decisivo a escala de la Península Ibérica, en particular...

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Le vingt-quatre contributions ici réunies entendent rendre compte des acquis de l'histoire religieuse contemporaine en France et en Espagne. Une première partie analyse les enjeux méthodologiques et théoriques d'une histoire religieuse qui se fait et s'écrit au sein de sociétés sécularisées. Le poids de la tradition de l'Église, et aussi celui des luttes politiques pour en réduire l'influence, dessinent les configurations idéologiques où s'inscrivent les travaux de sociologie historique religieuse. Une seconde partie aborde les phénomènes propre à l'Église catholique en...

Bernal Díaz del Castillo (1492-1584) was a foot soldier in the army of Mexico's conqueror Hernán Cortés. The first edition of his True History of the Conquest of New Spain (as it was entitled in a later English translation) was published in Madrid in 1632 from a manuscript copy sent to Spain shortly after the author's death. Written in a highly accessible style, and describing the experiences of the troops themselves rather than seeing events from an officer's perspective, the work became even more successful than the official accounts and went through many editions and translations. The...