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...
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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...
The heuristic value of the Historical Archive of the Municipality of Lima is undeniable for scholars of the American viceregal culture. You will find from the minutes of the foundation of Lima or beginnings of the Ciudad de los Reyes until the Act of Independence signed in 1821. In this...
The Biblioteca Áurea Digital (BIADIG) (Digital Golden Library (BIADIG)), part of GRISO's digital publications, has an extraordinary new book. This is the volume edited by Martina Vinatea and Álvaro Baraibar Viajes y ciudades míticas (Travels and mythical cities). The topics covered are various: chronicles, travel books, holiday relation (descriptions of...
The complete title of the work of Rodrigo de Valdés is Fundacion y Grandezas de la muy noble, y muy leal Civdad de los Reyes de Lima, insigne corte, Cabeza Tres vezes Coro- nada del Perv, Rico Lucido esmalte de la Corona de España, que ciñe, al Circulo Eterno de...
The complete title of the work is Las tres jornadas del cielo. Via Purgativa, Iluminativa, i Unitiva. Significadas en Gemidos, Deseos, ì Suspiros. Ordenadas en metrica consonancia, para mas suave armonia al corazon, por el R. P. Fr. Juan de Peralta, del Orden de N. P. S. Francisco, de la...
The Monastery of Our Lady of Carmen was founded in Lima on 17 December 1643. The Order of the Descalzas Carmelites sent as a gift a relic of the Prolífica Madre Santa Teresa de Ávila, o de Jesús. It consists of a the letter dated 28 August 1575, signed in...
Taken from the Portal de Archivos Españoles: Informaciones de oficio y parte: Monasterio de Nuestra Señora de la Limpia Concepción de Lima, fundado por Inés Muñoz de Ribera, su abadesa. Constan su primer y segundo maridos, Francisco Martín de Alcántara y Antonio de Ribera, su hijo Antonio de Ribera y...