Catalog dedicated to the study of texts and major historical, political and cultural events from the Conquest (16th century) to the Baroque (18th century). Philology, History, Linguistics, Science, History of Art, Musicology, Theology among other disciplines are found to foster studies appropriate to the complex multicultural character of the colonial period. This collection is presented in three supports:
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The American continent, during the modern era, was a woman. Letrados of the 16th and 17th centuries imagined it as an untamed Amazon surrounded by wild fauna. And, above all, anthropophagous. She was the antithesis of the Christian city, where idolatry reigned. It was then that the viceroyalties established a...
This collective volume brings together a dozen works focused on three thematic lines: transatlantic journeys, the chronicles of the Indies and the colonial epic poetry, which are approached from different critical and interdisciplinary perspectives. They are analyzed from general aspects like the necessity of a pertinent philological annotation of the...
The present book includes fourteen works that focus on the study of various colonial characters or very important persons who lived in the American Viceroys between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. The approach of each is diverse, as were these personages and also the different strategies they used, not only...
This volume includes different chapters of specialists and their approaches to the culture of the Viceroyalty of Nueva España. This is the reason of its title, Arte, cultura y poder en la Nueva España (Art, culture and power in Nueva España), indicates the interdisciplinary approach of the ensemble. The book,...
The «Quijote» from America (Second Part) is a homage to Don Quixote (1615) by a group of distinguished specialists from both sides of the Atlantic. It is a way of recognizing, and celebrating, the immediate arrival of the Cervantes masterpiece to America and its deep subsequent impact on many important...
One of the topics that has most attracted the attention of Americanist critics has been the European in the imagination of America as a chimerical continent that brought together much of the hopes and fears of the Old World, as well as its projects of colonial domination. Such is the...
Barroco de ambos mundos. Miradas desde Puebla offers a series of interdisciplinary and transatlantic works on various themes and problems of this period, with particular attention to the modalities of the Indian Baroque. The diversity of approaches and reasons addressed, without claiming to be exhaust, allows us to take on...
Travellers to the New World. Foreigners in Lima, 1590-1640 analyses the integration strategies of the foreigners who lived in Lima in the years 1590-1640. This question is interesting because foreigners, according to the law, were forbidden to travel to the Indies, and even more so to trade with them, unless they had...
This book makes available to the reader a series of works dedicated to women of the viceregal America, women who were writers or protagonists of relevant events in the conquest of various territories of the region. Along with the studies dedicated to summits of colonial letters such as sor Juana...
Autoridad jesuita y saber universal ensaya una nueva aproximación a la Libra astronómica y filosófica de Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora respecto de la polémica entablada con Eusebio Francisco Kino y su Exposición astronómica del cometa. Además de situar ambos tratados cometarios en la tradición astronómica europea y colonial del...