Poderes en conflicto

En estas paginas se presenta una seleccion de los parrafos mas iluminados de la Historia verdadera de la conquista de la Nueva Espana. Se trata de las descripciones mas apasionadas y asombrosas que se quedarian para siempre en la memoria del cronista. Aqui se perciben el azoro ante lo desconocido, la admiracion ante las grandezas del mundo mexica, la sentida importancia que el autor confiere a los hechos en los que participa y todo un vertigo de colores, sabores, edificios y multitudes que no parecen sino cosas de encantamiento.

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...

Cumulative issues published quarterly, semiannually or annually -June 1911; -June 1898 include comparative data for the previous year.