Humanism, Rhetoric, and the Historical Imagination in the Early Chronicles of Spanish America
by
Sarah H. Beckjord
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2008
Sarah H. Beckjord’s Territories of History explores the vigorous but largely unacknowledged spirit of reflection, debate, and experimentation present in foundational Spanish American writing. In historical works by writers such as Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo, Bartolomé de Las Casas, and Bernal...