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 Discurso en loor de la poesía, an anonymous prologue to the Primera parte del Parnaso antártico de obras amatorias, by Diego Mexía de Fernangil (1608), is an exponent of the group of poems aimed at praising and defending poetry from those who do not consider the importance of its...
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...
The American continent, during the modern era, was a woman. Letrados of the 16th and 17th centuries imagined it as an untamed Amazon surrounded by wild fauna. And, above all, anthropophagous. She was the antithesis of the Christian city, where idolatry reigned. It was then that the viceroyalties established a...
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Sorry, this entry is only available in European Spanish.
Sorry, this entry is only available in European Spanish.
Sorry, this entry is only available in European Spanish.
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...
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...