Angels, Demons and the New World

ISBN-13: 9780521764582 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 330 str.

Fernando Cervantes

Opis

Depicts the intricate cultural, religious and intellectual kaleidoscope of interactions between angels, demons and the heterogeneous populations of Spanish America.

Recenzje

'This is a major addition to the scholarship of diabolism and the less often addressed matters of angelology as well as an important area of connection between Europeans and the New World.' Leonard R. N. Ashley, Bibliothèque d'Humanisme et Renaissance

Spis treści

Introduction Fernando Cervantes and Andrew Redden; Part I. From the Old World to the New: 1. The devil in the old world: anti-superstition literature, medical humanism and preternatural philosophy in early modern Spain Andrew Keitt; 2. Demonios within and without: Hieronymites and the devil in the early modern Hispanic world Kenneth Mills; 3. How to see angels: the resilience of Mendicant spirituality in Spanish America Fernando Cervantes; Part II. Indigenous and Afro-American Responses: 4. Satan is my nickname: demonic and angelic interventions in colonial Nahuatl theatre Louise Burkhart; 5. Vipers under the altar cloth: Satanic and angelic forms in seventeenth-century New Granada Andrew Redden; 6. Where did all the angels go? An interpretation of the Nahua supernatural world Caterina Pizzigoni; Part III. The World of the Baroque: 7. Angels and demons in the conquest of Peru Ramón Mujica Pinilla; 8. Winged and imagined Indians Jaime Cuadriello; 9. Psychomachia Indiana: angels, devils and holy images in New Spain David Brading.