Secretos medievales

No cabe duda de que la Guerra Civil Española supuso un antes y un después en la historia de nuestro país. Este libro, escrito 75 años después del comienzo del conflicto, nos ofrece un completo análisis de las batallas más trascendentales acaecidas entre 1

Obra que puede considerarse como la última de una trilogía sobre el México borbónico, de carácter más general que sus dos antecesores. Con objeto de mostrar la conmoción causada por el ataque de los Borbones a la Iglesia mexicana, el autor incluye capítulos basados en los cronistas mendicantes de Michoacán, en los que se observa la dinámica del catolicismo barroco en la Nueva España de los primeros decenios del siglo XVIII.

Bernal Díaz del Castillo (1492-1584) was a foot soldier in the army of Mexico's conqueror Hernán Cortés. The first edition of his True History of the Conquest of New Spain (as it was entitled in a later English translation) was published in Madrid in 1632 from a manuscript copy sent to Spain shortly after the author's death. Written in a highly accessible style, and describing the experiences of the troops themselves rather than seeing events from an officer's perspective, the work became even more successful than the official accounts and went through many editions and translations. The...

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