Inspired by the title of the work of Diego Dávalos Figueroa, Nueva Miscelánea Austral is a selection of colonial texts (either by its origin or subject) prepared by the Proyecto de estudios indianos (PEI). Different private and public institutions with the support of servers like Google have digitized enormous volumes of texts of the past centuries. Those of colonial material are no exception, so the PEI offers to users a digital shelf in which digitized books are shown with a proper description for their convenience.
In the Old World, from the beginning of Christianity, the Virgin Mary and the martyrs were assumed to be intermediaries between God and mankind, and from the Middle Ages onwards, certain pious practices related to the saints and the divinity were incorporated: the veneration of their objects or anatomical parts...
The manuscript of the Testimony and the Summary of the Holy Office that collects the case of Luisa Benites is in the National Historical Archive, in Madrid, under the signature Inquisition, file 1648, number 6. The manuscripts contain 55 pages in the case of the Testimony and 287 folios, in...
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This book offers fifteen essays with different orientations on the influence of the Greco-Roman tradition on the cultural and political activity of viceregal Peru, from its arts, letters and philosophy, to its jurisprudence and historiography. According to Teodoro Hampe, «what is peculiar about the reception of classical culture in America...
This book contains the transcripts of the instructions and memorials given to the administrators of the estates, booklets written by the Jesuits by order of Viceroy Amat to serve as a guide to those who succeeded them in the administration of the estates, and part of the documentation of the...
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