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Building colonial cities of God : mendicant orders and urban culture in New Spain, 1570-1800 /

This book tracks New Spain's mendicant orders past their so-called golden age of missions into the ensuing centuries and demonstrates that they had equally crucial roles in what Melvin terms the ""spiritual consolidation"" of cities. Beginning in the late sixteenth century,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Melvin, Karen
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, ©2012.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Ordering cities : urban convents and friars, 1570-1810
  • Distinguishing habits : corporate and collective mendicant identities
  • Serving cities : orders and their urban ministries
  • Defining religions : mendicant connections and disconnections in urban society
  • Loving complaints : orders and the formation of local religious culture.