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Asclepiadaeum: un poema latino del Perú colonial [PDF]
Lexis, 2011 The role that Latin played as the language of culture and prestige in the Spanish colonies of America has not been studied in depth. Especially, in the case of the viceroyalty of Peru, the lack of documents has prevented detailed research in this area ...
Ángela Helmer
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, 2019 The Viceroyalty of Brazil (c. 1720–1815) refers to a polity that, at its greatest extent, roughly corresponded in geographic area to the modern nation-state of Brazil.
Buono, Amy, Amy Buono
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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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Language, Science and Globalization in the Eighteenth Century**
Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Volume 46, Issue 1, Page 38-53, March 2023., 2023 Abstract Asia, America, and Europe have been intellectually intertwined for centuries. Several studies have been published revealing European scholars’ interest in the “exotic” languages of Asia and America, as well as in ethnographic and anthropological aspects.
Rebeca Fernández Rodríguez
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Ad maiorem Dei gloriam: Numeracy levels in the Guarani Jesuit missions
The Economic History Review, Volume 76, Issue 1, Page 87-117, February 2023., 2023 Abstract This work provides data on human capital for the Guarani Jesuit missions during the eighteenth century. Based on the age heaping methodology, the results of a large sample (over 3600 observations) suggest that the knowledge of numerical skills in these missions was exceptional.
Èric Gómez‐i‐Aznar
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, 2021 This article argues that the impact of the Constitution of Cádiz among Indigenous communities in the Viceroyalty of Peru was significant. In the context of the imperial crisis of the Spanish crown, Indigenous people took the tools that the constitution ...
Escanilla Huerta, Silvia
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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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‘BIG DATA’ AND ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT'S APPROACH TO SCIENCE
German Life and Letters, Volume 74, Issue 3, Page 394-415, July 2021., 2021 ABSTRACT This article departs from the hypothesis that Alexander von Humboldt used ‘Big Data’ in order to bring new scientific evidence into the open. His method of measuring and combining temperature, humidity, altitude and magnetism in a geographical environment must be regarded as innovative, indeed, as the foundation of modern science.
Daniel Grana‐Behrens
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Le prononciamiento afrodescendant de Samborondón : lettre d’un curé informant sur l’élection de 1813
Nuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos, 2021 This article deals with the political culture of the descendants of slaves in the north of the viceroyalty of Peru. Through the examination of a little studied archive, the anonymous letter of the parish priest of the village of Samborondón, this ...
Maria Julia De Vinatea Rios
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Identifying disappeared historic buildings of port of Callao using georeferencing
Built Heritage, 2023 The port of Callao is important for its varied historical and archaeological heritage, which includes several military buildings that were the main actors and witnesses of the colonial era of Peru (from the 16th century to the country’s independence from
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