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Showing 1 to 20 of 35 for “"New Spain"”.
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Peasants, Servants, and Sojourners: Itinerant Asians in Colonial New Spain, 1571-1720
… and within the Americas and Asia opened a new chapter in the social history of the early modern world. This project expands the study of Latin American history in three ways. First, it analyzes the ways in which chinos, especially Filipinos, created and sustained colonial Mexico as part of …
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Female society portraits: representing the elite woman in eighteenth-century New Spain
… and circulation of portraiture beyond to a new and growing class of elites. This project examines the production and circulation of secular female portraiture in eighteenth-century New Spain. Focusing on the role of portraiture as an agent in the formation of individual and collective …
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Corporeal rhetoric and social order in the viceroyalty of New Spain: from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment
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A mother of light in the age of Enlightenment: Heterodoxy, interiority, and epistemology in eighteenth-century New Spain
… arising locally. Into this Marian Zodiac of New Spain, Madre Santísima de la Luz entered in the early 18th century, and her devotion swiftly proliferated. The cult and image of this Most Holy Mother serve as an excellent case study to examine certain contentions in the age of Enlightenment, …
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CREATING SPACES OF THIRD GENDER IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY NEW SPAIN: REPRESENTATIONS OF GENDER IN PORTRAIT PRINTS OF MEXICAN COLONIAL NUNS
In Colonial New Spain, vidas interiores were confessions written by nuns in convents under the order of their confessors. These vidas served as the basis for biographies of the sisters, which were written and distributed by confessors. Vidas frequently included printed portraits of the subjects on …
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From One Woman to Another: The Role of Spanish Women in the Catholic Education of Indigenous Girls in Sixteenth Century New Spain
… beatas garnered great support of their work from Spain's Queen Isabella of Portugal. Through Isabella's writings in the 1530s, her support for the spread of Catholicism and her respect for the women carrying out God's instructions to convert the world is evident. Isabella favored the "soft …
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From the Creole Country to the Mexican Nation: The Surge and Articulation of Nationalism in the Print Journalism of the 18th-Century New Spain, in Its Transatlantic Context
… Mexican nationalism, literatos, colonial newspapers, Enlightenment, 18th Century.
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Fermenting Identities: Race and Pulque Politics in Mexico City between 1519 and 1754
… manipulated and reshaped ethnic identity in New Spain. Examining pre-conquest and post-conquest perceptions of the maguey (or American agave) and pulque, the maguey's alcoholic by-product, underscores how race, ethnicity and food influenced social change after Cortes marched on Mexico. The …
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The Scandalous Case of Isabel de la Cruz Mejía: Healing, Ethnicity, and Gender in Seventeenth-Century Mexico
During the seventeenth century, the colony of New Spain experienced a dearth of formally trained and affordable medical practitioners due to the education, cost, and socioeconomic requirements dictated by the Protomedicato. In this absence, Novohispano society learned to heal itself. Influenced by …
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Beyond Racial Categorizing: The Influence of the Spanish Bodegón on Casta Painting
… the development of genre-syle casta painting in New Spain. In setting apart the two types of casta painting, the register type and the genre type, I offer answers to the questions "what function did the use of he bodegón serve within casta painting and what was the purpose of the genre-style …
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De la patria criolla a la nación Mexicana: Surgimiento y articulación del nacionalismo en la prensa Novohispana del siglo XVIII, en su contexto transatlántico
… IN THE PRINT JOURNALISM OF THE 18TH-CENTURY NEW SPAIN, IN ITS TRANSATLANTIC CONTEXT Spanish American creoles constructed an epistemological alternative to Europe. For such a project, 18th-century creoles relied on two forces that their predecessors did not enjoy: the cultural environment of …
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Black Catholicism: The Formation of Local Religion in Colonial Mexico
… and their descendants in seventeenth-century New Spain. In that century, New Spain (the Spanish term for colonial Mexico) was home to the second largest enslaved population and the largest free black population in the Western Hemisphere. My research studies the intricate, generational process …
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Native Subordination Through The Franciscan Institutions During The Sixteenth Century
… the visibility of the Franciscan order in New Spain. I intend to clearly establish how the Virgin de Guadalupe’s influence on native conversions was mediated through, and controlled by, the Franciscan institutional systems between 1523 and 1572.</p> <p>Many scholars have argued that the …
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Ceramic analysis and interpretation from Presidio San Saba (41MN1) Menard, Texas
… who lived at this far northern outpost of New Spain from 1757 to 1772. By describing and analyzing the ceramic artifacts recovered at this site, it is possible to understand the lifeways of the men and women who lived at the fort. Ceramic analysis provides details about the use of rooms …
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Inspired Invention: Cristóbal de Villalpando's Paintings of the Life of Saint Francis
… on later depictions of this saint’s life in New Spain, have never been fully explored. In a larger context, examining the scenes illustrated in Villalpando’s series, which were likely selected under the guidance of his Franciscan patrons, tells us something about the Franciscans conception of …
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Behold These English Dogs!: Englishmen in the Atlantic World Before the Holy Office of the Inquisition, 1560-1630
… of Englishmen, especially by the Tribunal in New Spain (México), set off a chain reaction of events that infuriated Queen Elizabeth I of England and brought about her conflict with King Philip II of Spain which challenged his Grand Strategy for World domination. Elizabeth’s status as a heretic …
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