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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...
Elio Antonio de Nebrija's work is the first grammar of Spanish and also the first grammar of a vulgar language printed in Europe. At that time, Spanish was not considered a "language of culture." Although his Castilian Grammar is based on the model of the Introductiones latinæ (1481), it must...
This work is the first history of the Royal and Pontifical University of San Marcos in Lima, the oldest university on the American continent. In the first part of the text, a brief biography of the author is given: Fray Antonio de la Calancha. This Augustinian of the Viceroyalty of...
The «pueblo de indios» was the socio-political, religious and territorial organisation into which the indigenous settlements were transformed during the New Spain regime. Their layout was often distributed along a river and on one side of the hills of pre-Hispanic sacredness, as can be seen in the paintings that depicted...
In the Hispanic monarchy, the most accurate data for the reconstruction of climatic events, and even to generate climatic series, were the records of the rogativa ceremonies, recorded in the acts of the civil and ecclesiastical councils of the bishop's sees. These ceremonies were based on rites or public acts...
This book analyzes and interprets the historical memory produced by naturalists, geographers, engineers and others (from the mid-18th century to 1940). These professionals propitiate the creation of institutions and the organization of research projects related to geography and natural history. . Throughout the text, the heterogeneity of the conceptions about...
In March 1568, the first Jesuit expedition arrived at the port of Callao and soon after, the San Pablo School and Church was created in Lima, today known as the San Pedro Church. The historical and artistic importance of this architectural jewel of the viceroyalty period, built more than 400...
History, faith and tradition converge in this book that offers an extensive study on the devotion of the Lord of Miracles, patron of the city of Lima. From history, anthropology, architecture, history of art, restoration, music and gastronomy, readers are offered an overview of this devotion that has transcended the...
The present book, volume XLVII of the collection Arte y Tesoros del Perú, is the first of two volumes dedicated to the study of Andean artistic production that emerged from the encounter between two cultural traditions, that is, the Spanish and the native ones. The Inca empire came to an...