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Angels, Demons and The New World.
Depicts the intricate cultural, religious and intellectual kaleidoscope of interactions between angels, demons and the heterogeneous populations of Spanish America.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Illustrations; Contributors; Introduction; Part I From the Old World to the New; 1 The devil in the Old World: anti-superstition literature, medical humanism and preternatural philosophy in early modern Spain; 2 Demonios within and without: Hieronymites and the devil in the early modern Hispanic world; Demons Within; Demons Without; 3 How to see angels: the legacy of early Mendicant spirituality; Part II Indigenous responses; 4 Satan is my nickname: demonic and angelic interventions in colonial Nahuatl theatre; Herald Angels; Isolated Demons; Guardians and Tempters.
- 'Souls and Testamentary Executors''How a Grandfather Brought Up His Orphan Grandchild'; 'The Nobleman and His Barren Wife'; 'The Life of Don Sebastián'; 'The Merchant'; 'How to Live on Earth'; 'Don Rafael'; Fragmentary Morality Plays; 5 Where did all the angels go? An interpretation of the Nahua supernatural world; Looking for Angels; Finding Saints; 6 Vipers under the altar cloths: satanic and angelic forms in seventeenth-century New Granada; Part III The world of the Baroque; 7 Angels and demons in the conquest of Peru*; I. Cosmological and historical antecedents.
- II. Hapsburg Angelology and the IncasEpilogue: Bartolomé de las Casas and the foundations of an American demonology; 8 Winged and imagined Indians; Song and mechanical arts; The charm of childhood; Confessing visions; Bearer of portents; Marian Angelophanies; Towards Altars and Platforms; Intermingled dignities and identities; 9 'Psychomachia Indiana': angels, devils and holy images in New Spain; Works cited; Index.