Sistema Regional de Información
en línea para Revistas Científicas de América Latina,
el Caribe, España y Portugal

The province of Yucatan has been often described as a Spanish empire’s periphery, not only because of its farness from the Courts (of Mexico and Spain), but also because of its conquest’s incompleteness, since extensive territories remained out of the colonial control for centuries. However, in the sixteenth century the Defensores (or advocates) of the Indians, as well as the Procuradores (or representatives) of the local Spanish towns maintained a close relationship with both the Mexican Court and the Council of the Indies. This article examines those actors’ travels, as well as the circulation of the documents they produced in order to determine the differential impact of those two factors on the production of imperial law. Special attention will be paid to the strategies aimed at interfering with the free circulation of persons and documents across the empire and its impact on the enactment of decrees related to the indigenous people of Yucatan.

The article analyzes the Franciscan Order of Chile in the independence period, focusing on two units: the Province of the Holy Trinity and the Chillan Mission College. First, we offer a look from historiography and then give way to the voices and actions of some religious in the independence process. The Order had to collaborate with the civil authorities in a climate of war, with either economic donations or facilitating their dependencies to the army. However, another thing is to observe its position in the face of events and the way they channeled it. For this, we have consulted historical documents of the period, emanated from the friars themselves, such as patent letters, letters, circulars, and press writings. Through critical reading and triangulation, we have been able to reach conclusions. In this sense, we can affirm that the voices and actions of the friars were changing, depending a lot on the course of events. The bulk of them was oblivious to the process, living the internal issues that had afflicted them since the last century, in terms of the relaxation of customs and life in common.

This article studies anticlericalism as religious dissent and criticism manifested in Chile during the 1820s. Although Chile was regarded as a Catholic republic, the analysis of anticlericalism shows that it was an important stream of political criticism that had its dissemination mainly through the press and theater. Nevertheless anticlericalism was not an organized movement; this religious response was led in a way that allowed anticlericalism to assume a defined political identity because of its secularizing potential, the promotion of religious tolerance, criticism of the ancient regime and the necessity to carry out reforms to the clergy in benefit of individual freedoms and national progress.

El cáncer es una de las enfermedades más graves de nuestro tiempo debido a su elevada prevalencia, morbilidad y mortalidad, lo que le ha convertido en contenido habitual de la información periodística a lo largo de la historia. En este artículo se pretende analizar cómo fueron los anuncios publicitarios relativos a los productos, establecimientos y servicios que se ofertaban a principios del siglo XX en España, en relación con la enfermedad del cáncer, así como realizar una aproximación a la realidad social, cultural y educativa en el periodo de tiempo estudiado.A partir de la hemeroteca digital de los periódicos ABC y La Vanguardia, se seleccionaron todos los anuncios publicitarios que aparecieron publicados a lo largo del periodo comprendido entre 1903 y 1912.Encontramos un total de 386 anuncios (107 en ABC y 279 en La Vanguardia), publicándose el mayor número de anuncios en el año 1910 para el primero y 1903 para el segundo. El tratamiento proporcionado por ABC y La Vanguardia es bastante diferente en términos numéricos, aunque en los aspectos cualitativos hay niveles de coincidencias importantes, publicándose en ambos medios anuncios idénticos de manera total o parcial.Las informaciones acerca del cáncer publicadas en la prensa pudieron propiciar en la sociedad una visión excesivamente optimista del tratamiento del cáncer, de sus resultados y de su pronóstico, pues se ofertaban tratamientos con propiedades curativas consideradas excelentes y que poseían características milagrosas.

Tirso de Molina includes in an excellent work in prose his version of the story of Pyramus and Thisbe. It is written in the new ten-line stanza with the inclusion of two excellent little ballads. He uses it to show different ideas and a delicate elaboration that is in the service of ingenuity. It is likely that he took the subject after reading J. de Montemayor even though he bore in mind the Ovidian original work. The language he uses goes from classicism to the baroque style and many of his linguistic findings carry the hallmark of Calderon.