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  • Judging Maria de Macedo

    A Female Visionary and the Inquisition in Early Modern Portugal

    by Bryan Givens ...
    On February 20, 1665, the Inquisition of Lisbon arrested Maria de Macedo, the wife of a midlevel official of the Portuguese Treasury, after she revealed during a deposition that, since she was ten years old, an enchanted Moor had frequently "taken" her to a magical castle in the legendary land of wonders known as the Hidden Isle. The island paradise was also the home of Sebastian, the former king ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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  • Our Lady of Guadalupe

    Mother of the Civilization of Love

    by Carl Anderson, Eduardo Chavez ...
    Nearly a decade after Spain's conquest of Mexico, the future of Christianity on the American continent was very much in doubt. Confronted with a hostile colonial government and Native Americans wary of conversion, the newly-appointed bishop-elect of Mexico wrote to tell the King of Spain that, unless there was a miracle, the continent would be lost. Between December 9 and December 12, 1531, that ... Read more

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  • From Ancient Rome to Colonial Mexico

    Religious Globalization in the Context of Empire

    Edited by David Charles Wright-Carr, Francisco Marco Simón ...
    From Ancient Rome to Colonial Mexico compares the Christianization of the Roman Empire with the evangelization of Mesoamerica, offering novel perspectives on the historical processes involved in the spread of Christianity. Combining concepts of empire and globalization with the notion of religion from a postcolonial perspective, the book proposes the method of analytical comparison as a point of ... Read more

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  • Pope Francis in His Own Words

    Edited by Julie Schwietert Collazo, Lisa Rogak ...
    The moment the identity of the newly elected 266th pontiff was revealed, it was clear to the thousands gathered in St. Peter’s Square, and to the watching world, that this pope was different in fascinating and exciting ways — the first from Latin America, the first Jesuit, and the first to take the name Francis, in honor of St. Francis of Assisi. When Pope Francis, formerly Cardinal Jorge Mario ... Read more

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  • Religious Authority in the Spanish Renaissance

    by Lu Ann Homza ...
    Series Book 118 - The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science
    This in-depth study of religious tensions in early modern Spain offers a new and enlightening perspective on the era of the Inquisition.Traditionally, the Spanish Renaissance of the 15th and 16th centuries has been framed as an epic battle of opposites. The followers of Erasmus were in constant discord with conservative Catholics while the humanists were diametrically opposed to the scholastics. ... Read more

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  • The Companion to Hispanic Studies

    by Catherine Davies ...
    What is 'Hispanic Studies'? This companion gives a concise and accessible overview of the discipline as taught today and suggests new directions for future developments. 'Hispanic Studies' is broadly concerned with the languages and cultures of the vast 'Hispanic' world, extending chronologically from Roman Hispania to today, and geographically from Roman Hispania to today, and geographically from ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Translation as Conquest

    Sahagún and Universal History of the Things of New Spain

    by Victoria Ríos Castaño ...
    Series Book 13 - Parecos y Australes. Ensayos de Cultura de la Colonia
    Fray Bernardino de Sahagún (1499-1590) directed the composition of an encyclopaedic work on the world of the Nahuas, Universal History of the Things of New Spain (ca. 1577-1579), for which he has received the title of pioneering ethnographer and anthropologist of colonial Mexico. Contextualizing Sahagún and his work in sixteenth-century Spain and America, this study presents him as a cultural ... Read more

    $38.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Our Lady of Guadalupe and Saint Juan Diego

    The Historical Evidence

    by Eduardo Chávez ...
    Series series Celebrating Faith: Explorations in Latino Spirituality and Theology
    In Our Lady of Guadalupe and Saint Juan Diego, Eduardo Chávez presents the most important points of the Great Guadalupan Event: the apparition of Our Lady of Guadalupe to Juan Diego, a recently converted indigenous man, in Mexico. Through a utilization of the numerous historical documents and investigations of this event, Chávez details the reality of what occurred in the cold winter of 1531. As ... Read more

    $39.69 USD

  • Sin and Confession in Colonial Peru

    Spanish-Quechua Penitential Texts, 1560-1650

    by Regina Harrison ...
    Series series Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture
    A central tenet of Catholic religious practice, confession relies upon the use of language between the penitent and his or her confessor. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, as Spain colonized the Quechua-speaking Andean world, the communication of religious beliefs and practices—especially the practice of confession—to the native population became a primary concern, and as a result, ... Read more

    $29.69 USD

  • The Relación de Michoacán (1539-1541) and the Politics of Representation in Colonial Mexico

    by Angélica Jimena Afanador-Pujol ...
    Series series Recovering Languages and Literacies of the Americas
    Through close readings of the painted images in a major sixteenth-century illustrated manuscript, this book demonstrates the critical role that images played in ethnic identity formation and politics in colonial Mexico.The Relación de Michoacán (1539–1541) is one of the earliest surviving illustrated manuscripts from colonial Mexico. Commissioned by the Spanish viceroy Antonio de Mendoza, the ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Moors Dressed as Moors

    Clothing, Social Distinction and Ethnicity in Early Modern Iberia

    by Javier Irigoyen-Garcia ...
    Series series Toronto Iberic
    In early modern Iberia, Moorish clothing was not merely a cultural remnant from the Islamic period, but an artefact that conditioned discourses of nobility and social preeminence.In Moors Dressed as Moors, Javier Irigoyen-Garcia draws on a wide range of sources: archival, legal, literary, and visual documents, as well as tailoring books, equestrian treatises, and festival books to reveal the ... Read more

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  • Angels, Demons and the New World

    Edited by Fernando Cervantes, Andrew Redden ...
    When European notions about angels and demons were exported to the New World, they underwent remarkable adaptations. Angels and demons came to form an integral part of the Spanish American cosmology, leading to the emergence of colonial urban and rural landscapes set within a strikingly theological framework. Belief in celestial and demonic spirits soon regulated and affected the daily lives of ... Read more

    $109.09 USD