“«Granas e lanas»: memoria de los orígenes en Bernal”
Starting from a historical and philological close reading of a passage fromBernal Díaz del Castillo’s Historia verdadera de la conquista de la Nueva España,I try to show the surprising modernity of the conqueror-colonizer in hisappraisal of labor. I argue that Bernal’s image of colonial society can...
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| Formato: | Online |
| Idioma: | español |
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El Colegio de México
2010
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| Acceso en línea: | https://nrfh.colmex.mx/index.php/nrfh/article/view/2455 |
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Nueva Revista de Filología Hispánica |
| Sumario: | Starting from a historical and philological close reading of a passage fromBernal Díaz del Castillo’s Historia verdadera de la conquista de la Nueva España,I try to show the surprising modernity of the conqueror-colonizer in hisappraisal of labor. I argue that Bernal’s image of colonial society can beexplained by a remembrance of a flourishing Castile, based on wool production,just as he experienced it in the Medina del Campo of his youth. |
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