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Argentina y conquista del Río de la Plata (Lisboa, 1602) de Martín del Barco Centenera es uno de los pocos testimonios de las acciones imperiales en el Río de la Plata y el único cantado en octavas reales. El autor, que vivio un cuarto de siglo en la region, no critica la fundacion del imperio en si mismo, pero ni tiene una vision complaciente de los conquistadores ni los reivindica.A lo largo de sus paginas se cuentan intrigas de las autoridades, levantamientos indigenas, rebeliones mestizas, ataques piratas... desde una mirada sarcastica muy personal. Experiencia propia y leyendas, pasado inmediato que busca mitificarse y universo contemporaneo, son los elementos propios de este poema transgresor que ha aportado numerosisimas referencias al imaginario colonial rioplatense, incluso desde el siglo XIX en adelante.La Argentina hasta ahora ha conocido distintas versiones, algunas muy manipuladas, a lo largo de los siglos. Esta edicion critica fija el texto a partir de la princeps de 1602 y por primera vez aclara en su anotacion una indispensable cantidad de datos historicos, linguisticos, geograficos, etnograficos, zoologicos, literarios, etc.

The Temple of Seti I at Abydos is is one of the great monuments of the New Kingdom. Rosalie Davids book, last printed more than 30 years ago, offers a guide to its magnificent reliefs and wall paintings, explaining the scenes of ritual and worship. This new edition will, for the first time, also include some of the outstanding watercolours by Amice Calverley and Myrtle Broome that were published between 1933 and 1958.

Recoge información bibliográfica sobre 166 ejemplares de pliegos de villancicos y otras nueve reproducciones facsimilares procedentes de Madrid, Marchena, México, Oaxaca, Puebla, Sevilla, Valencia y Valladolid, hoy Morelia, que ahora se conservan en la Biblioteca Historica Jose Maria Lafragua (Puebla), una biblioteca privada de Puebla, la Biblioteca Cervantina del Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores (Campus Monterrey), la Biblioteca Nacional de Antropologia e Historia (Ciudad de Mexico), la Biblioteca Palafoxiana (Puebla), la Biblioteca del Centro de Estudios de Historia de Mexico (Ciudad de Mexico), la Biblioteca Nacional de Mexico y la Biblioteca Luis Gonzalez de El Colegio de Michoacan (Zamora).La introduccion al libro, ademas de explicitar la metodologia de trabajo, ofrece a los lectores un recorrido por los avatares editoriales de pliegos de villancicos impresos en Puebla de los Angeles y Mexico. El apendice analiza y describe una destacada coleccion de la Biblioteca Cervantina de 26 copias en papel de pliegos de villancicos realizadas a partir de varios microfilmes de procedencia desconocida. Finalmente, los indices topografico, de primeros versos, de composiciones, de secciones, de lenguas y jergas, de lugares e instituciones, de fiestas, de maestros de capilla, de autores de las letras, tipografico y onomastico clasifican la informacion reunida en los impresos y sus ejemplares, ofreciendo de esta manera sendos datos sistematizados para futuras investigaciones. El trabajo de descripcion bibliografica se llevo a cabo por un equipo coordinado por Anastasia Krutitskaya y conformado por Karina Jhoanna Gutierrez Mondragon, Erick Esponda Suazo y Mario Antonio Izucar Duran, quienes participaron en el proceso de catalogacion y en la construccion de los indices.

This collection explores the complexities of translation in the Ottoman Empire, examining the intersections of Arabic, Persian, and Turkish (elsine-i selse) that formed the linguistic backbone of Ottoman high culture and literature. The contributors investigate translation practices, cultural exchange, and power relations that shaped the Ottoman intellectual landscape, covering topics such as literary translations, lexicography, and the evolution of Ottoman Turkish as a lingua franca. Focusing on the fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries, the articles reveal the intricate web of linguistic, cultural, and historical forces that influenced translation decisions, authorship, and readership in the Ottoman Empire, shedding new light on the dynamics of cross-cultural communication and knowledge transfer in pre-modern Eurasia.

The monograph concerns the analysis of mechanisms and processes of the evolution of the civil service corps in Poland after 1996. Additionally, it involves the evolution of the role of the state in the context of public administration and the significance of the dichotomous relationship between administration and politics. The research is interdisciplinary in nature and covers three areas: political, legal and regulatory as well as personal, cultural and historical aspects. It characterises the structures, organisation, legal nature, scope of rights and duties and principles like neutrality, impartiality and professionalism of the civil service.Extensive empirical data on the Polish civil service enriched the analysis and was used to illustrate the state of the organisation between 1996 and 2016. These data included appraisals, appointments, examinations, employment, etc. By observing the dynamics and variability of the Polish civil service corps, the study has the character of a functional analysis. The reflections culminate in recommendations and proposals for improving the current situation.

A unique Mamlk manuscript tells the story of a Damascene jurist. Ibn al-Zamlakns story revolves around a dramatic episode in the life of his master, the great judge Tj al-Dn al-Subk, who is the central figure (hero) of the tale. The composer justly names his document maqmah. In rhyming prose, it narrates several episodes. Transmitted by a narrator (or at least his voice), who distances himself from the event, it is a story about an escape from hardship of a hero who is supported by good characters and face some evil enemies. Yet, it is not a biography, but a dramatic plot that transmits a moral lesson. The maqmah illuminates the relations between the Mamlk ruling military aristocracy and the religious establishment, as well as the competition that divided the Damascene urban elite.

This book contributes to the history of medieval Jewry in general, as a basis for a comparative study of the position of the Jews in Christian Europe in the Late Middle Ages. The eight articles written by leading experts on this topic pay special attention to the following issues: the measure of tolerance of the Mamluk rulers and the Muslim populace toward the Jews; Jews in government positions and as court physicians; conversion and attitudes toward converted Jews; the Sufi (mystical) nature of Jewish leadership and its relation to the Sufi Islamic discourse; professional, intellectual, and legal interactions between Jews and Muslims. In the end, the contributions help us to sharpen our understanding of Jewish life during the Middle Islamic Period in the Near East.

Employing survey archaeology, excavation, ethnographic study, and multinational archival work, the Shala Valley Project uncovered the many powerful, creative ways whereby the men and women of Shala shaped their world: through dynamic, world-systemic relationships with the powers that surrounded but never fully conquered them. The Shala Valley Project presents the highlanders, the malesore, in the full complexity of their lives, while also unveiling a new, deeper history for the region--a history that reaches back to an unexpected fortified Iron Age site. Light and Shadow tells many stories. Archaeologists, historians, and students of tribes, of empires, of imperial-indigenous relations, of blood feud, of kinship, of the built landscape, of world-systems theory and sustainability science, and more, will find much here to digest. The people of Shala, to which Light and Shadow is dedicated, may serve as an example in our modern age, one in which persistent, tribal peoples still fight for their survival, and seek to preserve some degree of independence from capitalist economies bent on their incorporation.

La obra de Bartolomé de las Casas ejerció una gran influencia en los procesos legislativos así como en el pensamiento histórico, jurídico y teológico sobre las Indias en los siglos XVI y XVII. Este estudio examina los criterios argumentales que le permitieron sustentar sus propuestas y los vincula primariamente con el Ius commune, en particular con el Derecho Canonico. Asi, los tratados de 1552 se analizan en funcion de los canones que Las Casas aplica y de los canonistas que discute para elaborar las figuras juridicas de cada tratado. Se analiza luego el vinculo que existe entre esta demostracion juridica y el proyecto historico y etnografico que representan, respectivamente, la Historia de las Indias y la Apologetica historia sumaria. Se muestra, ademas, que Las Casas organiza sus materiales y concibe su prosa en funcion de los principios con que los glosadores del Derecho Comun comentaban las leyes. Sobre estas bases, se deslinda finalmente la voz autorial de Las Casas, se precisa la naturaleza de sus intervenciones y su contribucion a la tradicion canonistica. El trabajo se cierra con una indagacion sobre la manera en que el pensamiento de Las Casas sirvio para formar la opinion comun sobre los asuntos de Indias entre los miembros de la Escuela de Salamanca.

La obra y el legado del excepcional hispanista George Ticknor (1791-1871) es el objeto de estudio en este volumen colectivo. Su amor a las lenguas clásicas y modernas comenzó en Dartmouth College (1807) y continuo durante su estancia de tres años en la universidad alemana de Gotinga, donde completo su educacion con el notable historiador Friedrich Bouterwek. Tras una serie de viajes por Europa, incluida una estancia de seis meses en España, regreso a su Boston natal para hacerse cargo de la primera catedra de lenguas romanicas (frances y español) en Harvard. Durante casi dos decadas Ticknor contribuyo a fortalecer el campo de las lenguas modernas, o vivas, y el estudio de la literatura desde la erudicion y los metodos filologicos mas influyentes del dia.Ademas de su Syllabus of a Course of Lectures on the History and Criticism of Spanish Literature (1823), The Best Methods of Teaching the Living Languages (1832), Ticknor publico la monumental History of Spanish Literature en 3 volumenes (1849), que, basada en la nocion de "espiritu nacional" del idealismo aleman, sirvio para establecer el campo del hispanismo en los Estados Unidos, alcanzando gran repercusion tambien en España e Hispanoamerica. Ticknor fue tambien un gran bibliofilo y un defensor del acceso a la cultura de las capas sociales menos favorecidas; resultado de este compromiso fue su labor esencial en la fundacion de la Biblioteca Publica de Boston en 1848. Los participantes en este volumen tambien exploran la actividad mentora de Ticknor con historiadores de la talla de William H. Prescott, la resonancia de su legado en figuras como Archer M. Huntington, fundador de la Hispanic Society of America, en Nueva York, asi como el establecimiento de los estudios hispanicos en las universidades americanas durante el siglo XIX.

Espectros y conjuras. Asedios a la cuestión colonial examina cómo la escritura colonial encubre la violencia material y simbólica que la hace posible y, a la vez, invoca los espectros de lo borrado; esto es, los signos de lo que debia permanecer enterrado, pero que retorna como diferencia inquietante y disrupcion textual. A partir de las reflexiones de Walter Benjamin, Paul Ricur y Jacques Derrida sobre los espectros, este libro indaga esta cuestion paradojica y espectral en una serie de textos coloniales paradigmaticos de la historia cultural latinoamericana que incluyen relaciones de conquista, obras de teatro imperial, relatos etnograficos, planes de gobierno y control de la poblacion, novelas e historiografias de autores como Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca, Bartolome de las Casas, Michael de Carvajal, sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, Jose de Anchieta, Antonio Vieira, Eligio Ancona y Oswaldo Costa, entre otros.

This book is the first in more than a decade to provide new information on the Chavin phenomenon of ancient Peru. Thought by some to be the "Mother Culture" of ancient Peruvian cultures, Chavin is remarkable for its baroque, sophisticated art style in a variety of media, including finely carved stone monuments, beautifully formed pottery, and magnificent and complex metallurgy. Also, the textiles from Chavin are incredibly innovative, both iconographically and structurally. They, in fact, form the foundation for the later Andean textile evolution. Chapters in this book cover new interpretations of the history of the site of Chavin de Huantar, studies of related cultures, the role of shamanism, and many other topics of interest to specialists and the general reader, alike.

Recipient of the Jo Anne Stolaroff Cotsen Prize. This volume publishes the excavation and analysis of the Early Iron Age cemetery at Torone in Chalkidike, in the north Aegean, Greece. Spanning the period between the twelfth or eleventh century down to ca. 850 BC, the cemetery represents one of the few burial grounds of the period in Greece to have been excavated virtually in its entirety (yielding 134 tombs, of which 118 were cremations and 16 inhumations).

David B. Rudermans groundbreaking studies of Jewish intellectuals as they engaged with Renaissance humanism, the Scientific Revolution, and the Enlightenment have set the agenda for a distinctive historiographical approach to Jewish culture in early modern Europe, from 1500 to 1800. From his initial studies of Italy to his later work on eighteenth-century English, German, and Polish Jews, Ruderman has emphasized the individual as a representative or exemplary figure through whose life and career the problems of a period and cultural context are revealed. Thirty-one leading scholars celebrate Rudermans stellar career in essays that bring new insight into Jewish culture as it is intertwined in Jewish, European, Ottoman, and American history. The volume presents probing historical snapshots that advance, refine, and challenge how we understand the early modern period and spark further inquiry. Key elements explored include those inspired by Rudermans own work: the role of print, the significance of networks and mobility among Jewish intellectuals, the value of extraordinary individuals who absorbed and translated so-called external traditions into a Jewish idiom, and the interaction between cultures through texts and personal encounters of Jewish and Christian intellectuals. While these elements can be found in earlier periods of Jewish history, Ruderman and his colleagues point to an intensification of mobility, the dissemination of knowledge, and the blurring of boundaries in the early modern period. These studies present a rich and nuanced portrait of a Jewish culture that is both a contributing member and a product of early modern Europe and the Ottoman Empire. As director of the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, Ruderman has fostered a community of scholars from Europe, North America, and Israel who work in the widest range of areas that touch on Jewish culture. He has worked to make Jewish studies an essential element of mainstream humanities. The essays in this volume are a testament to the haven he has fostered for scholars, which has and continues to generate important works of scholarship across the entire spectrum of Jewish history.

When the Karaites successfully dissociated themselves from the Rabbanite Russian Jews with the creation of the Karaite Religious Consistory in 1837, the result was a schism within Judaism unprecedented since the rise of Christianity. Philip E. Miller sets this event in the context of the history of the Russian Karaites from their origins to the present, focusing on economic and political concerns that led to the schism. The Karaites separatism shielded them from the horrific fates suffered by the Rabbanites under the tsars, under Hitler, and under Stalin, but it ultimately led to their nearly complete assimilation and disappearance as a people. The central character in Millers study is Simchah Babovich, a Crimean Karaite whose wealth and prominence enabled him to curry favor with the imperial Russian government. In 1827, Babovich traveled to St. Petersburg on behalf of the Karaite community and petitioned the tsar for exemption from military conscription legislation that applied to all Jews in the realm. Accompanying him on the journey was Joseph Solomon ben Moses Lutski, the leading Karaite religious scholar of Evpatoriia. Lutskis chronicle of the mission, the Iggeret teshuat Yisrael (Epistle of Israels Deliverance), is reprinted here as an annotated Hebrew text with English translation. In colorful detail, the Iggeret records the delegations travel adventures, their activities as guests and tourists in the imperial capital, the swift granting of Babovichs request, and the Karaites euphoric reaction when the successful petitioners arrived back home in Evpatoriia.

El Archivo Simón Ruiz, crucial para entender la actividad económica y financiera a mediados del siglo XVI, alberga la correspondencia entre el que fuera corregidor de Medina del Campo y uno de los hombres de negocios mas importantes en la epoca de Felipe II, y la familia Gomes de Elvas. Los inicios comerciales de esta familia se gestaron en la ciudad fronteriza que da nombre a su linaje. Las fuentes documentales consultadas en esta localidad y las cartas remitidas a Medina del Campo permiten reconstruir el camino que condujo a los Gomes de Elvas a convertirse en una de las casas de negocios mas importantes de Portugal.Este libro va mas alla de una perspectiva meramente economica y ahonda en los estudios de familia y empresa, analizando el comportamiento de la familia Gomes de Elvas y sus estrategias empresariales, un camino que no solo los condujo al exito economico, sino tambien al ennoblecimiento de varios de sus miembros. Este hito es especialmente relevante, pues su exito se consumo con la obtencion de un prestigioso oficio, como es el de correo mayor, que se transformara en un cargo hereditario con el que asegurar el estatus economico y su influencia social a lo largo de diversas generaciones.

Ten Outstanding Books in Mission Studies, World Christianity and Intercultural Theology for 2019 International Bulletin of Mission Research (IBMR) Noted theologian Samuel Escobar offers a magisterial survey and study of Christology in Latin America. Starting with the first Spanish influence and moving through popular religiosity and liberationist themes in Catholic and Protestant thought of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, In Search of Christ in Latin America culminates in an important description of the work of the Latin American Theological Fraternity (FTL). Escobar chronologically traces the journey of Latin American Christology and describes the milestones along the way toward a rich understanding of the spiritual reality and powerful message of Jesus.IVP Academic is pleased to release this important work, originally published in Spanish as En busca de Cristo en America Latina, for the first time in English. Offers theological, historical, and cultural analysis of Latin American understandings of Christ Discusses the sixteenth-century Spanish Christ, popular religiosity, and developed theological reflection Covers the full spectrum of theological traditions in Latin America Examines the figure of Jesus Christ in the context of Latin American culture of the twentieth century Places liberation theology within its social and revolutionary context

The worlds most artful and skillful stone architecture is found at Tiahuanaco at the southern end of Lake Titicaca in Bolivia. The precision of the stone masonry rivals that of the Incas to the point that writers from Spanish chroniclers of the sixteenth century to twentieth-century authors have claimed that Tiahuanaco not only served as a model for Inca architecture and stone masonry, but that the Incas even imported stonemasons from the Titicaca Basin to construct their buildings. Experiments aimed at replicating the astounding feats of the Tiahuanaco stonecutters--perfectly planar surfaces, perfect exterior and interior right angles, and precision to within 1 mm--throw light on the stonemasons skill and knowledge, especially of geometry and mathematics. Detailed analyses of building stones yield insights into the architecture of Tiahuanaco, including its appearance, rules of composition, canons, and production, filling a significant gap in the understanding of Tiahuanacos material culture.

The Risorgimento, the period of nation-state formation, has always had particular significance not only in the historiography of Italy but also for the transnational and comparative history of the founding of nation-states. Gabriele Clemens presents a new, up-to-date and well-founded overview of the history of the Risorgimento. Her account covers an entire century of Italian history, beginning around 1770, before the French Revolution, and ending in 1870 with the conquest of Rome by the troops of the burgeoning nation state. This balanced and highly readable account combines the perspective of political cultural history with an economic and social historical approach. At the same time, it offers new interpretations, for example on the roles played by the nobility and the bourgeoisie. It questions the established claim that the masses were mobilized by means of art, music and literature and critically analyses the significance of Garibaldi, the man and the myth. The path to the nation state is described as the work of a state-supporting elite that acts consistently in transnational networks.

Qiu Guangming, the author of this book, is a researcher on the measuring and weighing systems in China for more thirty years. he has been collecting historical data and examining actual objects, which resulted in in numerous research papers and books. This books examines these systems she has researched.