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...
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Sorry, this entry is only available in European Spanish.
This pioneering book written by our colleague Gisela von Wobeser studies the transformation of the Mexican landscape with the introduction of European agriculture. To do this, she explains the control of two fundamental components: land and water. As usual, von Wobeser works with a large and well-chosen selection of archival...
This dictionary comes entirely from the dictionary published by Fray Alonso de Molina in 1571 with the title of Diccionario náhuatl-español Basado en los diccionarios de Alonso de Molina con el náhuatl normalizado y el español modernizado, whose importance has been pondered numerous times, besides being the main source of...
The feminine culture during the Colony is the subject that Josefina Muriel develops throughout this work. She gives plenty of data on those our ancestor women that were the transmitters, although placed in a second plane, of the cultural values that constituted their world. It presents these women by what...
The Novohispana Society made extensive use of credit. The ladies of the high society paid for the manufacture of their dresses in installments, the miners obtained advances from the merchants to exploit the mines, the stores of the towns supplied goods on credit, the workers of the haciendas and obrajes...
This grammar presents the different parts of the morphology, among its main characteristics; grants considerable attention to derivation and word composition processes; offering many examples. The texts used by the author as examples belong to the classic Spanish literature of the Códice florentino (Florentine Codex).
During the old regime, in the Hispanic scope, there were many institutions and foundations, promoted and supported by the civil society, that had a religious purpose, while they performed an important economic and social function. Among them were the brotherhoods, the pious works and the chaplaincies for the Mass. The...
When we think on the economy of the American viceroyalties, we consider immediately the extraction of natural resources and the creation of new enterprises or industries in the New World. Few scholars, except persons like María del Pilar Martínez López-Cano, have taken the responsibility of studying how credit was the...
The economic history of the American viceroyalties has some classic studies. In the Hispanic region, the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) claims several studies published by its Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas (Institute of Historical Research). Now we are going to write out a fragment of the introduction of the...