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...
Corónica Moralizada del Orden de San Agustín en el Perú, by Fray Antonio de la Calancha, is a complex work that unfortunately, due to its originality and extension, has been little studied and often misunderstood. The first part that is shared and commented here is a chronicle that combines the...
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 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...
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...