La representación de la historia contemporánea en el teatro de Lope de Vega

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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...

En estas páginas (tomadas del libro Pasajeros de indias publicado por el FCE en 1999) se muestran las características de los navíos y las peripecias y tribulaciones que representaban los viajes trasatlánticos de Europa a América en el siglo XVI. Al conocer de cerca los barcos, las tripulaciones, las inclemencias y los tiempos de aquellas travesías, conoceremos mejor las circunstancias reales en las que se escribió nuestra historia.

La economia y el comercio; la indumentaria y los usos; la organizacion social, politica y sacerdotal; la literatura y la escritura; la medicina; la idea del tiempo y la historia; las matematicas, la astronomia y la cronologia; la religion, la cosmologia y la cosmogonia; lo ritual; la arquitectura, la pintura y la escultura... el universo Maya, simplemente.