History, Languages, and Cultures of the Spanish and Portuguese Worlds – serie
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Andean Hybrid Baroque
Convergent Cultures in the Churches of Colonial Peru
Inbunden, 2010
1379 kr
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The Andean Hybrid Baroque is the first comprehensive study of the architecture and architectural sculpture of Southern Peru in the late colonial period (1660s-1820s), an enduring and polemical subject in Latin American art history. In the southern Andes during the last century and a half of …
Pastoral Quechua
The History of Christian Translation in Colonial Peru, 1550-1654
Av Alan Durston
Häftad, 2007
836 kr
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Explores the story of how the Spanish priests and missionaries of Catholic church in post-conquest Peru systematically attempted to incarnate Christianity in Quechua. This book examines historical contexts of Christian writing in Quechua; and the role Andean religious images were given in creating …
Early Modern Dialogue with Islam
Antonio De Sosa's Topography of Algiers (1612)
Av Antonio de Sosa, María Antonia Garcés
Häftad, 2011
758 kr
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This text offers a translation of Antonio de Sosa's sixteenth-century chronicle of his travels in North Africa, and particularly Algeria, with an introduction by María Antonia Garcés.
Death and Conversion in the Andes
Lima and Cuzco, 1532-1670
Häftad, 2010
687 kr
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Argues that understanding the relation between death and conversion in the Andes involves not only considering the obvious attempts to destroy the cult of the dead, but also investigating a range of policies and strategies whose application demanded continuous negotiation between Spaniards and …
Contested Territory
Mapping Peru in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
Häftad, 2009
553 kr
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Landscape is never static, but changes continuously when seen in relation to human occupation, movement, labor, and discourse. This title explores the ways in which Peru's early colonial landscapes were experienced and portrayed, especially by the Spanish conquerors but also by their conquered …
Juan De Segovia and the Fight for Peace
Christians and Muslims in the Fifteenth Century
Häftad, 2014
805 kr
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Juan de Segovia (d. 1458), theologian, translator of the Qur'ān, and lifelong advocate for the forging of peaceful relations between Christians and Muslims, was one of Europe's leading intellectuals. Today, however, few scholars are familiar with this important fifteenth-century figure. In this …
Pastoral Quechua
The History of Christian Translation in Colonial Peru, 1550-1654
Av Alan Durston
Inbunden, 2022
2265 kr
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Pastoral Quechua explores the story of how the Spanish priests and missionaries of the Catholic church in post-conquest Peru systematically attempted to "incarnate" Christianity in Quechua, a large family of languages and dialects spoken by the dense Andes populations once united under the Inca …
Contested Territory
Mapping Peru in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
Inbunden, 2022
1583 kr
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Landscape is never static, but changes continuously when seen in relation to human occupation, movement, labor, and discourse. Contested Territory explores the ways in which Peru's early colonial landscapes were experienced and portrayed, especially by the Spanish conquerors but also by their …
Death and Conversion in the Andes
Lima and Cuzco, 1532-1670
Inbunden, 2022
1958 kr
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When the Spanish invaded the Inca empire in 1532, the cult of the ancestors was an essential feature of pre-Columbian religion throughout the Andes. The dead influenced politics, protected the living, symbolized the past, and legitimized claims over the land their descendants occupied, while the …
Jesuit and the Incas
The Extraordinary Life of Padre Blas Valera, S.J.
Häftad, 2004
405 kr
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In the spirit of justice Blas Valera broke all the rules-and paid with his life. Hundreds of years later, his ghost has returned to haunt the official story. But is it the truth, and will it set the record straight?This is the tale of Father Blas Valera, the child of a native Incan woman and …
Romans in a New World
Classical Models in Sixteenth-Century Spanish America
Häftad, 2006
393 kr
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Romans in a New World shows how the ancient Romans haunted the Spanish conquest of the New World, more often than not as passionately rejected models. While the conquistadors themselves and their publicists challenged the reputations of the Romans for incomparable military genius and daring, …
Origins of Mexican Catholicism
Nahua Rituals and Christian Sacraments in Sixteenth-Century Mexico
Häftad, 2006
382 kr
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"Pardo's study provides a persuasive criticism of the widespread assumption that the process of Christianization in Mexico can be conceived as the imposition of a complete and fool-proof system that did not accept doubts or compromises. The Origins of Mexican Catholicism will become an invaluable …
Bishops, Councils, and Consensus in the Visigothic Kingdom, 589-633
Inbunden, 2001
1191 kr
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The medieval Visigothic kingdom--even after the full-scale conversion of the population from Arianism to Catholicism--was barely held together by a fluctuating mixture of tradition inherited from Roman law, Germanic and provincial influences, local custom, and Catholic values. In her study of a …
Network of Converso Families in Early Modern Toledo
Assimilating a Minority
Av Linda Martz
Inbunden, 2003
1439 kr
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A Network of Converso Families in Early Modern Toledo addresses the fortunes of Jewish families who converted to Catholicism in fifteenth-century Spain. From the fifteenth through the seventeenth century, their careers, successes, and misfortunes are traced as they confront institutional and …
Jews, Christian Society, and Royal Power in Medieval Barcelona
Av Elka Klein
Inbunden, 2006
1297 kr
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Jews, Christian Society, and Royal Power in Medieval Barcelona traces the development of the Jewish community of Barcelona from 1050 to 1300. Elka Klein challenges the common perception that medieval Jews lived in relative isolation from the surrounding society, argues for the existence of …
Mirror of Spain, 1500-1700
The Formation of a Myth
Inbunden, 2000
1439 kr
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In this major new work, J. N. Hillgarth investigates how Spain was seen by non-Spaniards in the period when it was the leading power in Europe. The author brings together a wide range of sources that elucidate Spanish history and Spanish character. He demonstrates the ways that propaganda has …
Upholding Justice
Society, State, and the Penal System in Quito (1650-1750)
Av Tamar Herzog
Inbunden, 2004
1368 kr
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In colonies like Quito, order was typically maintained by local, private law enforcement, while weak and impoverished bureaucratic infrastructures receded into the background. Judicial administration was therefore open to the influences of social networks, rumor, and reputation. Upholding justice …
Conflict and Coexistence
Archbishop Rodrigo and the Muslims and Jews of Medieval Spain
Av Lucy K Pick
Inbunden, 2004
1328 kr
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"An outstanding contribution not only to Spanish but to European history at large. Pick's book is the first to clarify the unity of purpose that drove Archbishop Rodrigo, a major figure not only as a historian and controversialist, but as a churchman whose military campaigns advanced the conquest …
How the Incas Built Their Heartland
State Formation and the Innovation of Imperial Strategies in the Sacred Valley, Peru
Inbunden, 2006
1368 kr
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Inca archaeology has traditionally been intimately tied to the study of the Spanish chronicles, but archaeologists are often asked to explain how Inca civilization relates to earlier states and empires in the Andean highlands-a time period with little coinciding documentary record. Until recently, …
Missionary Tropics
The Catholic Frontier in India (16th-17th Centuries)
Inbunden, 2005
1397 kr
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By focusing on the Jesuit missionary discovery of Indian "pagan" Hinduism, Zupanov traces the stages of the Jesuit's disconcerting journey into religious relativism or accommodation. At every point of this Euro-Asian encounter, the emerging Catholic communities attempted to twist and turn their own …
