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Art History, Volume 46, Issue 5, Page 946-977, November 2023., 2023 In seventeenth‐century Cartagena de Indias, a portcity in today's Colombia, enslaved Africans recently disembarked from the Middle Passage faced a Jesuit‐designed multisensory catechesis. The process involved listening to translations of the Christian doctrine delivered by African interpreter‐catechists enslaved by the Jesuits, often in conjunction ...
Larissa Brewer‐García +1 more
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Foul Biting, or Diego Valadés and the Medium of Print
Art History, Volume 46, Issue 5, Page 866-895, November 2023., 2023 Published in 1579 in Perugia, Diego Valadés's Rhetorica christiana is best known today as the first illustrated publication to show evangelisation efforts in the Americas to audiences across the Atlantic. Yet too often the Rhetorica's status in the history of art is that of exotica, a book seen as rare and valuable due to its American subject matter ...
Stephanie Porras
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The Textual Construction of North American Indigenous Peoples in the Account of Cook's Third Voyage
Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Volume 45, Issue 4, Page 463-485, December 2022., 2022 Abstract By foregrounding the stratification of cultural agencies underlying the text, this article analyses the conceptualization of human otherness in the official account of James Cook's third voyage, published in 1784. The close reading focuses on the case study of indigenous people encountered during Cook's journey up the west coast of North ...
Giulia Iannuzzi
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Sweet Femininities: Women and the Confectionery Trade in Eighteenth‐Century Barcelona
Gender &History, Volume 34, Issue 3, Page 574-589, October 2022., 2022 Abstract This article examines the intersections between sweetness, femininity and the confectionery trade in eighteenth‐century Barcelona, at a time of growing consumption of sugar and slavery. Drawing on a range of underexplored archival material, this study traces the stories of women of different social groups, namely, elite housewives, nuns and ...
Marta Manzanares Mileo
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Towards a trans‐regional approach to early medieval Iberia
History Compass, Volume 20, Issue 6, June 2022., 2022 Abstract The past few decades have witnessed great change in the study of the early Middle Ages in the Northern Iberian Peninsula. Spanish and Portuguese historiographies have moved away from older grand narratives such as ‘Reconquest and Repopulation’, which traced a centuries‐long process encompassing the ultimate victory of Christianity over Islam ...
Álvaro Carvajal Castro +11 more
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Crossing the Line: Cristóbal de Villalpando and the Surplus of Script
Art History, Volume 45, Issue 2, Page 308-341, April 2022., 2022 In 1706 Cristóbal de Villalpando signed a painting with an unusual, intensive calligraphic flourish, and sent it from Mexico City far to the north. This essay describes Villalpando's decision to invest so much pictorial energy in letterforms against this geographic backdrop.
Aaron M. Hyman
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Gender &History, Volume 34, Issue 1, Page 22-41, March 2022., 2022 ABSTRACT This paper looks from a gender perspective at the elusive figure, complex personality and myth of Francisco de Miranda, enlightened traveller and Precursor of Latin American independence. By analysing Miranda's personal archive as his own carefully crafted creation, it pursues three closely connected issues insufficiently interpreted in ...
Mónica Bolufer
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, 2022 En el siglo XVII se produce en Europa el choque entre dos tipos de organización estatal, el multicultural de la monarquía española, o hispánica, o católica, de los Austrias Habsburgo, con lenguas diversas, y el tipo centralizado y monolingüe de la monarquía borbónica francesa, que acaba imponiéndose en Europa y en España en particular, ya sin Portugal,
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Crónica indígena del siglo XVII
Con-Ciencia Boletín Científico de la Escuela Preparatoria No. 3, 2023 La crónica es una forma de la narrativa en la que se describen acontecimientos históricos siguiendo un orden cronológico, en la Nueva España del siglo XVI esta forma de expresión permitió recuperar la historia de la Conquista de México y estaba escrita principalmente por los conquistadores, sin embargo, a partir del siglo XVII los indígenas ...
Rosario Cortés Nájera +1 more
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La Corona y las Cortes en Castilla, 1590-1665
Revista de las Cortes Generales, 1986 Reflexión sobre otra visión de la historia de las Cortes de Castilla de finales del siglo XVI y del siglo ...
I. A. A. Thompson
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