La laguna de los villanos

En la mitad del siglo XIX, se desencadeno en el Uruguay una lucha descomunal entre la corriente liberal masonica y la corriente ultramontana jesuitica. La primera representada en el gobierno de Bernardo P. Berro, y la segunda en el jefe de la Iglesia Catolica, el vicario apostolico Jacinto Vera.

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...

Tiempo transcurrido es una crónica de por 18 años de vida mexicana. El libro empieza con un momento clave de la historia mexicana reciente, el movimiento estudiantil del 68, y se detiene antes de que suceda el terremoto de 1985. Juan Villoro retrata una época con innegable fidelidad al mismo tiempo que crea situaciones ficticias.

A short report on the site and sanctuary of Torreparedones in rural Cordoba, constructed in the reign of Caesar and in use throughout the reign of Augustus, and abandoned in the 1st century AD. The authors summarise the archaeological evidence for the occupation of the site, the construction of the sanctuary, its use and religius significance. Spanish text.