La codicia de Guillermo de Orange

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...

Simpson refleja la contradictoria fascinacion y el asombro que produce en los extranjeros el pasado y el presente de Mexico, lo mismo en el terreno de la referencia abstracta que en el de la confrontacion con una realidad cotidiana en la que la historia reaparece siempre con renovada vigencia. Tal vez por eso el autor nos dice que su libro es una invitacion al lector a hacer con el un remunerador viaje al pasado de Mexico.

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En 1898 tuvo lugar la guerra entre Estados Unidos y España, que consagró a la nación americana como potencia mundial y representó para la nuestra un golpe moral de demoledoras consecuencias históricas aunque enriquecedor desde el punto de vista intelectual, pues provocó el gran debate entre los pensadores integrados en la llamada “Generación del 98”. En el ánimo español se instaló un pesimismo que, en lo militar, produjo un aislamiento gremial visto por muchos investigadores como una de las causas motivadoras de la Guerra Civil y sobre el que no faltaron algunas autorizadas...