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Evangelization and Cultural Conflict in Colonial Mexico
In a study published in the mid-twentieth century, French historian Robert Ricard postulated that the evangelization and conversion of the native populations of Mexico had been rapid and relatively easy. However, different forms of evidence show that the so-called “spiritual conquest” was anything but easy or rapid, and, in fact, natives continued to practice their traditional beliefs alongside Catholicism. Within several decades of initiating the so-called “spiritual conquest,” the campaign to evangelize and convert the native populations, the missionaries faced growing evidence of idolatry or the persistence of traditional religious practices and apostasy, straying from Church teac...
Imaginarios occidentales en las crónicas del descubrimiento y conquista: cinco ensayos
Las investigaciones presentadas realizan análisis historiográficos que permitieron a los marineros, militares y religiosos estructurar saberes coloniales y aplicarlos al mundo mesoamericano. Las ideas colombinas, la búsqueda de Oriente, la analogía entre Tenochtitlan y Venecia, el misterioso origen de los mexicas y las profecías sobre la llegada de los españoles a Yucatán, son los temas a los cuales se dedican cada uno de los cinco ensayos que contiene la obra que el lector tiene en sus manos.
Aztec and Maya Apocalypses
The Second Coming of Christ, the resurrection of the dead, the Final Judgment: the Apocalypse is central to Christianity and has evolved throughout Christianity’s long history. Thus, when ecclesiastics brought the Apocalypse to Indigenous audiences in the Americas, both groups adapted it further, reflecting new political and social circumstances. The religious texts in Aztec and Maya Apocalypses, many translated for the first time, provide an intriguing picture of this process—revealing the influence of European, Aztec, and Maya worldviews on portrayals of Doomsday by Spanish priests and Indigenous authors alike. The Apocalypse and Christian eschatology played an important role in the co...
Tenochtitlan, la caída de un imperio
A 500 años de distancia de concluir el asedio que un ejército hispano-indígena impuso a las ciudades hermanas de Tenochtitlan y Tlatelolco sigue siendo impactante tal acontecimiento, por este motivo se convocó a un grupo internacional de investigadores para reflexionar colectivamente sobre la materia. Los autores reunidos en esta obra aportan el resultado de sus propias investigaciones para acercar al público en general a este apasionante episodio de la historia.
Iberian Books Volumes II & III / Libros Ibéricos Volúmenes II y III (2 vols)
Iberian Books II & III presents an indispensable foundational listing of everything known to have been published in Spain, Portugal and the New World, or of items printed in Spanish or Portuguese elsewhere, during the first half of the seventeenth century. Drawing on library catalogues, specialist bibliographies and studies, as well as auction catalogue records, Iberian Books lists 45,000 items, and the locations of some 215,000 copies surviving in 1,800 collections worldwide. These volumes offer a powerful research tool which will appeal to researchers, librarians and to the book selling and collecting communities. They will prove invaluable to anyone with a research interest in the literat...
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