Posted in Books & Films, News & Commentary on Jun 29th, 2017
¡Bienvenidos! once again to the School of Salamanca blog, a site dedicated to transmitting the legacy of Spanish scholastic theologians and jurists of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. This blog originally served as a platform for sharing my dissertation research back in 2011. It has been over five years since the last post so please […]
Posted in Books & Films, Research & Reflections on Jun 28th, 2011
I am thrilled to announce that José Alejandro Cárdenas Bunsen’s much-anticipated book on Las Casas is just about here! Well, not quite in the US yet. Its release date should be very soon. Cárdenas, who now teaches at Bucknell University, completed his dissertation a few years ago under the direction of Rolena Adorno at Yale. Taking up […]
Posted in Books & Films, News & Commentary on Apr 26th, 2011
During my visit to Madrid, I made it a point to visit the basilica of Nuestra Señora de Atocha. Most historians believe that this was the final resting place of Fray Bartolomé de las Casas before his death in 1566. When I arrived to the basilica with my family, I was pleased to be greeted by […]
Posted in Books & Films on Mar 25th, 2011
The other day in Madrid I had the chance to drop by the bookstore of the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas near the Prado museum. A division of Spain’s government, the CSIC has an excellent record of publishing Spanish translations of original Latin works pertaining to Spanish debates concerning the New World. Among the older generation of titles, […]
Posted in Books & Films on Feb 18th, 2011
Movies that are about making movies aren’t that good normally. They are often distracting and self-absorbed (Charlie Kauffman’s “Adaptation,” for all its creativity, stands out here). So when a movie comes along and demonstrates the real potential of using this narrative style, it deserves special recognition. “También la lluvia” (“Even the Rain”), directed by Icíar Bollaín, […]