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  • Unscripted America

    Indigenous Languages and the Origins of a Literary Nation

    de Sarah Rivett ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in American Literary History
    In 1664, French Jesuit Louis Nicolas arrived in Quebec. Upon first hearing Ojibwe, Nicolas observed that he had encountered the most barbaric language in the world--but after listening to and studying approximately fifteen Algonquian languages over a ten-year period, he wrote that he had "discovered all of the secrets of the most beautiful languages in the universe." Unscripted America is a study ... Leer más

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  • The Science of the Soul in Colonial New England

    de Sarah Rivett ...
    Series series Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
    The Science of the Soul challenges long-standing notions of Puritan provincialism as antithetical to the Enlightenment. Sarah Rivett demonstrates that, instead, empiricism and natural philosophy combined with Puritanism to transform the scope of religious activity in colonial New England from the 1630s to the Great Awakening of the 1740s.In an unprecedented move, Puritan ministers from Thomas ... Leer más

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  • Religious Transformations in the Early Modern Americas

    Edición de Stephanie Kirk, Sarah Rivett ...
    Series series The Early Modern Americas
    Christianity took root in the Americas during the early modern period when a historically unprecedented migration brought European clergy, religious seekers, and explorers to the New World. Protestant and Catholic settlers undertook the arduous journey for a variety of motivations. Some fled corrupt theocracies and sought to reclaim ancient principles and Christian ideals in a remote unsettled ... Leer más

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  • Religious Transformations in the Early Modern Americas

    Edición de Stephanie Kirk, Sarah Rivett ...
    Series series The Early Modern Americas
    Christianity took root in the Americas during the early modern period when a historically unprecedented migration brought European clergy, religious seekers, and explorers to the New World. Protestant and Catholic settlers undertook the arduous journey for a variety of motivations. Some fled corrupt theocracies and sought to reclaim ancient principles and Christian ideals in a remote unsettled ... Leer más

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  • Colonial Latin American Literature

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    de Rolena Adorno ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    A vivid account of the literary culture of the Spanish-speaking Americas from the time of Columbus to Latin American Independence, this Very Short Introduction explores the origins of Latin American literature in Spanish and tells the story of how Spanish literary language developed and flourished in the New World. A leading scholar of colonial Latin American literature, Rolena Adorno examines the ... Leer más

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  • Colonial Latin America

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    Colonial Latin America: A Documentary History is a sourcebook of primary texts and images intended for students and teachers as well as for scholars and general readers. The book centers upon people-people from different parts of the world who came together to form societies by chance and by design in the years after 1492. This text is designed to encourage a detailed exploration of the cultural ... Leer más

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  • The Inquisition in New Spain, 1536–1820

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    Edición de John F. Chuchiak IV ...
    The Inquisition! Just the word itself evokes, to the modern reader, endless images of torment, violence, corruption, and intolerance committed in the name of Catholic orthodoxy and societal conformity. But what do most people actually know about the Inquisition, its ministers, its procedures? This systematic, comprehensive look at one of the most important Inquisition tribunals in the New World ... Leer más

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  • A Cultural History of the Atlantic World, 1250–1820

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  • Translation as Conquest

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    Fray Bernardino de Sahagún (1499-1590) directed the composition of an encyclopaedic work on the world of the Nahuas, Universal History of the Things of New Spain (ca. 1577-1579), for which he has received the title of pioneering ethnographer and anthropologist of colonial Mexico. Contextualizing Sahagún and his work in sixteenth-century Spain and America, this study presents him as a cultural ... Leer más

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  • Sin and Confession in Colonial Peru

    Spanish-Quechua Penitential Texts, 1560-1650

    Series series Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture
    A central tenet of Catholic religious practice, confession relies upon the use of language between the penitent and his or her confessor. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, as Spain colonized the Quechua-speaking Andean world, the communication of religious beliefs and practices—especially the practice of confession—to the native population became a primary concern, and as a result, ... Leer más

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  • Missions Begin with Blood

    Suffering and Salvation in the Borderlands of New Spain

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    Winner, 2022 Frank S. and Elizabeth D. Brewer PrizeWhile the idea that successful missions needed Indigenous revolts and missionary deaths seems counterintuitive, this book illustrates how it became a central logic of frontier colonization in Spanish North America. Missions Begin with Blood argues that martyrdom acted as a ceremony of possession that helped Jesuits understand violence, disease, ... Leer más

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