Esplendores y miserias de la evangelizacion de America

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Durante el primer cuarto del siglo XIII, Gengis Kan creó el mayor imperio que ha existido sobre la tierra. Lideró a un pueblo conquistador que tan sólo unas décadas antes estaba formado por pequeños clanes nómadas que desconocían la escritura y se desplazaban por un reducido espacio de las estepas asiáticas. Unificados bajo el liderazgo de Gengis Kan los mongoles sometieron a grandes imperios, como el chino y el persa, y a infinidad de pueblos con efectivos militares muy superiores, riquezas ingentes y culturas milenarias. Fueron conquistadores «sin metáfora», es decir, sin...

En este libro, el autor estudia los c dices de la tradici n mesoamericana a partir de las convenciones pictogr ficas que exist an entre pintores y provincias, centr ndose en las representaciones del cuerpo humano y la discusi n sobre el naturalismo. Su aproximaci n tiene que ver, no con el desciframiento, sino con el modo en que la informaci n era transmitida. la historia de las oscilaciones de este arte ind gena del siglo XVI, ampliado por el canon del Renacimiento impuesto por los frailes pero, al mismo tiempo, conservado en algunas destrezas, t cnicas y g neros, es la historia que busca...