Gesto, identidad y memoria

The Medieval Heritage of Mexico is the result of more than thirty years' intensive research. This work examines, more thoroughly than any other, the medieval legacy that influences life in Spanish-speaking North America to the present day. Focusing on the period from 1517--the expedition of Hernandez de Cordoba--to the middle of the seventeenth century, Weckmann describes how explorers, administrators, judges, and clergy introduced to the New World a culture that was essentially medieval. This culture was, in some respects, a flowering--a rebirth, even--of the ideals and institutions of...

Selection of the papers presented at the XXIII Encuentro Nacional de Investigadores del Pensamiento Novohispano in Zacatecas in 2010.

"Catalog of the portraits in the National History Museum, which is the most important collection of colonial portraits in Mexico. A small b/w illustration of each work is accompanied by explanatory text and, in some cases, the biographical dates of the individuals portrayed. Provides date, material, size, and provenance. Also contains a biographical list of artists and illustrations of their signatures in the collection, as well as an index of colonial painters from the 16th-18th centuries and some from the 19th-20th centuries"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

Tanto en el aula como en las paginas del periodico, Jose Alvarado dedico su vida a la ensenanza, y su vida misma es una leccion de agudeza, de sensibilidad, de generosidad. Testimonio de ello son estas paginas, en donde lo anecdotico se vuelve trascendente; este magnifico prosista fue tambien, un hombre de hondas convicciones politicas y sociales.