La sabiduría en Preamérica

Magnífico estudio sobre la iconografía emblemática de la monarquía española en México. A partir de túmulos funerarios o fiestas con motivo del nacimientos de los herederos de las casas de Austria y Borbón, se analiza la imagen de la corona mediante grabados de la época en color.

El 1 de junio de 1310, en París, las llamas de una hoguera de la Inquisición consumieron el cuerpo vivo de una mujer de la que poco se sabe: Margarita Porete, una beguina de la región de Hainaut que había escrito un libro, El espejo de las almas simples, y que fue la causa de su condena. A pesar de ello, y tras su muerte, este libro tuvo tan enorme difusión que, en los últimos siglos de la Edad Media, traspasó fronteras geográficas y lingüísticas como pocos textos de su época, traduciéndose del francés (o del probable original picardo) al latín, al inglés y al italiano. Escrito ...

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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...