This wide-ranging introduction to the anthropology of Latin America and the Caribbean
offers broad coverage of culture and society in the region, taking into account historical …

Visualizing Sensuous Suffering and Affective Pain in Early Modern Europe and the Spanish
Americas is a trans-cultural collection of studies on visual treatments of the phenomena of …

The idea to write this book was conceived about a decade ago when reading Stephen
Haliczer's Between Exaltation and Infamy, a book about early modern Spanish mystics …

Se propone el estudio de los manuscritos confesionales generados en la Nueva España a
lo largo de los siglos XVII y XVIII dentro de la tendencia espiritual que justificó también la …

El trasplante de la espiritualidad teresiana a Nueva España fue una experiencia que puso a
prueba la capacidad de adaptar su mensaje reformista a las circunstancias de nuevas …

El proyecto ordenador de la Iglesia Católica estructuró el cuerpo social colonial a partir de
los modelos de comportamiento ideales de sujetos ejemplares, adicionalmente se utilizaron …

The truth is that to suffer for God is the real path to perfection and the safest way that God
has opened for all souls, as it is stamped by the footsteps of Jesus Christ, who so much …

This article serves as an introduction to the subject of the colonial Mexican convent for non‐
experts, while surveying recent historiographical trends. In the past ten years, historical …

In early 1674, troubling rumors began to circulate throughout the city of Trujillo on the
northern Peruvian coast. The local nuns of Santa Clara were said to be bewitched by bad …

The seventeenth-century Neapolitan painter and satirist Salvator Rosa (1615-1673), long
regarded as a harbinger of the ideals of professional independence that characterize the …