Arquidiócesis de Bogotá, 450 años: miradas sobre su historia

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...

Este libro es una obra conmemorativa de una fecha histórica relacionada con el Bicentenario del proceso de Independencia de Colombia. Justamente posee problemáticas variadas, pero siempre con fenomenologías en torno a 1819, verbigracia, los antecedentes, las distintas miradas del problema histórico e historiográfico desde diversas ópticas de análisis (como en efecto las hay), sus repercusiones y, por supuesto, lo que representó a lo largo del tiempo para la construcción del Estado-Nación.

El presente volumen, compilado a partir de un seminario de graduados impartido en el Center for Latin American Studies de la Universidad de Florida, reúne diversos ensayos y ponencias del historiador Germán Carrera Damas que analizan las perversiones que a lo largo de la historia, y en el presente venezolano, han asaltado al culto a Bolívar. El autor sostiene que, desde Páez a Guzmán Blanco, desde Gómez hasta Chávez, se ha recurrido a la figura de El Libertador convirtiendo el bolivarianismo en un fundamentalismo, en un culto sacralizado que, sumado al elemento militarista, resulta en...

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