Author: Bernardo NavarroPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : es
Pages : 614
Book Description
Vida y Milagros de S. Nicolas de Tolentino, religioso del Orden de N.P.S. Agustin
Author: Bernardo NavarroMission and Ecstasy
Author: Magnus LundbergPublisher:
ISBN: 9789150624434
Category : Latin America
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The author explores the relationship between contemplative and apostolic aspects of religious life in accounts by and about religious women in the Spanish Indies during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Biography of a Mexican Crucifix
Author: Jennifer Scheper HughesPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195367065
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
Here, Jennifer Scheper Hughes traces popular devotion to the Cristo Aparecido over five centuries of Mexican history. Each chapter investigates a single incident in the encounter between believers and the image.
Milagros del glorioso San Nicolás de Tolentino, de la Orden de S. Agustin
Author: Cristóbal de BustoBetween Exaltation and Infamy
Author: Stephen HaliczerPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195148630
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Using case-studies and biographies, the author examines women's mysticism in 16th- and 17th-century Spain and investigates the spiritual forces that provided women with a way to transcend the control of the male-dominated Catholic Church.
Converting Words
Author: William F. HanksPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520944917
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 485
Book Description
This pathbreaking synthesis of history, anthropology, and linguistics gives an unprecedented view of the first two hundred years of the Spanish colonization of the Yucatec Maya. Drawing on an extraordinary range and depth of sources, William F. Hanks documents for the first time the crucial role played by language in cultural conquest: how colonial Mayan emerged in the age of the cross, how it was taken up by native writers to become the language of indigenous literature, and how it ultimately became the language of rebellion against the system that produced it. Converting Words includes original analyses of the linguistic practices of both missionaries and Mayas-as found in bilingual dictionaries, grammars, catechisms, land documents, native chronicles, petitions, and the forbidden Maya Books of Chilam Balam. Lucidly written and vividly detailed, this important work presents a new approach to the study of religious and cultural conversion that will illuminate the history of Latin America and beyond, and will be essential reading across disciplinary boundaries.
Maya Society Under Colonial Rule
Author: Nancy Marguerite FarrissPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 9780691101583
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 602
Book Description
This is a study of the Maya Indians of Yucatan, Mexico, from late preconquest times through the end of the Spanish colonial rule.
The Nahuas After the Conquest
Author: James LockhartPublisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 080476557X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 676
Book Description
A monumental achievement of scholarship, this volume on the Nahua Indians of Central Mexico (often called Aztecs) constitutes our best understanding of any New World indigenous society in the period following European contact. Simply put, the purpose of this book is to throw light on the history of Nahua society and culture through the use of records in Nahuatl, concentrating on the time when the bulk of the extant documents were written, between about 1540-50 and the late eighteenth century. At the same time, the earliest records are full of implications for the very first years after contact, and ultimately for the preconquest epoch as well, both of which are touched on here in ways that are more than introductory or ancillary.
Theoretical Discussions of Biography
Author: Hans RendersPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004274707
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
Theoretical Discussions of Biography: Approaches from History, Microhistory, and Life Writing offers comprehensive overviews by 14 academic scholars of the actual state of the field of Biography Studies. In the volume, edited by biography scholars Hans Renders and Binne de Haan, specifically the connections between biography and the fields of microhistory, journalism, and Life Writing illuminate key challenges and problems in studying individual lives. Different perspectives are provided on the ways in which biography contributes to scholarship in the humanities in general and academic historiography in particular. The contributing authors are academic experts in these fields and include Richard D. Brown, Carlo Ginzburg, Nigel Hamilton, Marlene Kadar, Giovanni Levi, Sabina Loriga, Matti Peltonen, and James Walter.
The Martyr Luis de Carvajal
Author: Martin A. CohenPublisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 9780826323620
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Documentary history of Luis de Carvajal the younger and his family in Spain, their migration to Mexico, their life there, their persecution and deaths at the hands of the Inquisition.