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The Church of the Dead : The Epidemic of 1576 and the Birth of Christianity in the Americas /

"In 1576 a catastrophic epidemic devastated Indigenous Mexican communities and left the colonial church in ruins. With its horrific final symptom of hemorrhage from the nose, the unfamiliar disease, which the Nahua named cocoliztli, took almost two million lives. In the crisis and its immediate...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hughes, Jennifer Scheper (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : New York University Press, [2021]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
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