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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...

Bernal Díaz del Castillo nos ha dejado lo que muchos consideran es el mejor relato de la conquista de México. Su relación personal con los eventos narrados en su historia, dota a Díaz de la suficiente autoridad para refutar a otros autores de obras semejantes. Además del recuento de las batallas en las que participó, el autor ha incluido descripciones detalladas de los jardines botánicos, del mercado de Tlaltelolco y del centro de la capital azteca; así como de los sacrificios humanos en el gran templo de la pirámide de Cholula.

"Isabela Huffman is a precocious 8 1/2-year-old girl who can't seem to keep herself out of trouble on a visit to Guanajuato, Mexico, with her mother. She wants to be the president when she grows up. Or a ballerina. Or the president and a ballerina. She's dramatic. She sings on the bus, screams like a baby after putting chile powder on her fresh mango and convinces her mom to buy five pair of new shoes for a big family. No matter how many times her mom asks her to just sit down like a normal little girl, she just can't help getting up to take more pictures of her adventures. When will Isabela...

La historia de una instituci n de altos estudios tan singular como La Casa de Espa a, y su sucesora El Colegio de M xico -a ya cinco d cadas de su fundaci n- es parte imprescindible de la historia de la cultura en M xico: una historia que est por hacerse y que esta Jornada contribuye a realizar.