The Mexican Mission: Indigenous Reconstruction and Mendicant Enterprise in New Spain, 1521-1600

ISBN-13: 9781108492546 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 324 str.

Ryan Dominic Crewe

Opis

The Mexican Mission presents the most complex social history of the mission enterprise in sixteenth-century Mexico to date. Despite the crippling illness and socio-political upheaval that accompanied the Spanish conquest, the book finds that indigenous communities used the mission as a vehicle to reassert and reconstruct local sovereignty.

Recenzje

'The Mexican Mission will become a central text for those studying the history of the early church in New Spain.' Jason Dyck, Comptes Rendus

Spis treści

Introduction; Part I. Conversion: 1. The burning temple: religion and conquest in Mesoamerica and the Iberian Atlantic, circa 1500; 2. Christening colonialism: the politics of conversion in post-conquest Mexico; Part II. Construction: 3. The staff, the lash, and the trumpet: the native infrastructure of the mission enterprise; 4. Paying for Thebaid: the colonial economy of a mendicant paradise; 5. Building in the shadow of death: monastery construction and the politics of community reconstitution; Part III. A Fraying Fabric: 6. The burning church: native and Spanish wars over the mission enterprise; 7. Hecatomb; Epilogue: Salazar's doubt: global echoes of the Mexican mission.