Modelos culturales y normas sociales al final de la Edad Media

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute...

En el Tratado de las idolatrías, supersticiones y costumbres Jacinto de la Serna describe, entre otras, las costumbres de las indígenas aztecas durante el embarazo. Según comenta, no debían mirar los eclipses del Sol y la Luna, pues la criatura podría tener labios leporinos. Tampoco podían contemplar ejecuciones, pues los niños nacerían con una horrible soga de carne anudada a la garganta. Este tratado además ha sido extensamente citado por los expertos en sustancias psicotrópicas. Serna se ocupa de las diferentes sustancias que ingieren los indígenas en sus rituales y su texto se...

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...