La inteligencia peregrina

Como bien apunta la presentacion de este volumen, de Rafael Segovia Canosa puede decirse lo que en su momento dijo Jose Medina Echavarria recordando a su maestro de filosofia de derecho: "tipica inteligencia espanola, quemaba lo mejor de su talento en los fuegos artificiales de la tertulia." De ahi en adelante, el lector encontrara las mas variadas muestras de agradecimiento y de admiracion que su obra formal e informal ha despertado en todo lo largo y ancho de esta institucion academica, asi como de otras tantas mas.

La memoria es un tema tan amplio que su tratamiento completo abarcaría de la psicología a la filosofía, de la neurología a la historia moderna y de la zoología a la «petite madeleine» de Proust. De forma más modesta, este libro se limita a dos tareas. La primera es mostrar cómo funciona la memoria y la segunda es contemplar de modo crítico cómo los historiadores y los científicos sociales la han considerado y utilizado como herramienta de investigación, y sugerir diversos aspectos en los que una mejor apreciación del carácter de su material produciría resultados más...

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This book deals with the evangelization of Spanish-speaking America between the European conquest and independence. The study investigates the concepts and strategies of catechesis, the general conditions of Church law and national politics as well as the prerequisites and conditions on the part of the Indians. New and specific forms of mutual understanding, of mediation and resistance developed through the transfer of European knowledge to a second geographical area and through the contact of cultures and religions. These new forms evolved beyond the sphere of religion and determine cultural ...

This study surveys the changing urban topography of the Iberian peninsular from the 4th to 7th centuries AD, paying particular attention to the Christianisation of the urban landscape. It compiles a catalogue of episcopal seats and other urban centres, noting changes in terms of ecclesiastical building, the adaptation of public spaces to Christian ritual activity and the chaging funerary landscape.