Monsenor Agustin Roman

Retórica, historia y polémica is a study of Bartolomé de las Casas' writings, within the context of the European Renaissance intellectual tradition. The book examines the rhetoric and "politics of discourse" to demonstrate how the Dominican advocate of Amerindian rights subverted the relationship between Renaissance Christian humanism and New World experience, thus arriving at the most pervasive antihegemonic perspective of the conquest. The project focuses principally on Las Casas' most ambitious text, Historia de las Indias (1522-1527), although examples are also drawn from De unico...

La civilización islámica prosperó enormemente en sus primeros mil años de vida, desde las revelaciones a Mahoma en el siglo VII hasta los grandes imperios islámicos del siglo XVI. Mientras los europeos padecían la Edad Oscura, los musulmanes de ciudades como Jerusalén, Damasco, Alejandría, Fez, Túnez, El Cairo y Bagdad hacían extraordinarios avances en la filosofía, la ciencia, la medicina, la literatura y el arte. Este libro, accesible y apasionante, explora el primer milenio de la cultura islámica destruyendo estereotipos e ilustrando a los lectores sobre los acontecimientos y...

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Segunda parte del estudio dedicado a la diosa romana Diana en Hispania, como primera divinidad femenina del Panteón Hispano-romano. Este tomo intenta comprender el porqué del culto de esta diosa en la zona central de Hispania.