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En este acercamiento antropohistórico al fenómeno de las curaciones milagrosas, Theo Löbsack se pregunta seriamente qué secreto tienen los "charlatanes" que son capaces de curaciones súbitas, con la aparencia completa de un milagro por medios convencionales y excepcionales, en distintas épocas.

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Le héros des romans de Chrétien de Troyes est un 'chevalier', ce qui suppose, au Moyen Âge, toute une série de qualités d'ordre et moral et social, qui le différencient du reste et qui le situent à l'intérieur de l'élite de son monde. On pourrait même ajouter que le chevalier a un désir de transformation qui vise le perfectionnement personnel, et que ce désir le définit d'une certaine façon. Mais, avant toute chose, on est 'chevalier' quand 'on combat à cheval', et, sans aucun doute, l'essence du chevalier est intimement liée à sa monture. Le cheval définit le héros, non...

De los toltecas ancestrales hasta los aztecas, la mayoría de los historiadores dejaban casi en blanco cinco largos siglos (del VIII al XIII) que poco a poco empiezan a ser ocupados por la hegemonía de Culhuacán, sitio al pie del Cerro de la Estrella, en el valle de México. Las excavaciones realizadas por la autora en aquel lugar entre 1958 y 1962 llenan ese hiato e iluminan el papel central de la cultura culhua. Más de cien páginas de ilustraciones justifican el texto fundamental de Laurette Séjourné.

This epic history compares the empires built by Spain and Britain in the Americas, from Columbus’s arrival in the New World to the end of Spanish colonial rule in the early nineteenth century. J. H. Elliott, one of the most distinguished and versatile historians working today, offers us history on a grand scale, contrasting the worlds built by Britain and by Spain on the ruins of the civilizations they encountered and destroyed in North and South America. Elliott identifies and explains both the similarities and differences in the two empires’ processes of colonization, the character of...