Title The Mexican mission : indigenous reconstruction and mendicant enterprise in New Spain, 1521-1600 / Ryan Dominic Crewe, University of Colorado, Denver

Published Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2019

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Description 1 online resource Series Cambridge Latin American studies Cambridge Latin American studies. Contents Conversion -- The burning temple: religion and conquest in Mesoamerica and the Iberian Atlantic, circa 1500 -- Christening colonialism: the politics of conversion in post-conquest Mexico -- Construction -- The staff, the lash, and the trumpet: the native infrastructure of the mission enterprise -- Paying for Thebaid: the colonial economy of a mendicant paradise -- Building in the shadow of death: monastery construction and the politics of community reconstitution -- A fraying fabric -- The burning church: native and Spanish wars over the mission enterprise -- Hecatomb -- Salazarʹs doubt: global echoes of the Mexican mission Summary In the sixty years following the Spanish conquest, indigenous communities in central Mexico suffered the equivalent of three Black Deaths, a demographic catastrophe that prompted them to rebuild under the aegis of Spanish missions. Where previous histories have framed this process as an epochal spiritual conversion, this book widens the lens to examine its political and economic history, revealing a worldly enterprise that both remade and colonized Mesoamerica. The mission exerted immense temporal power in struggles over indigenous jurisdictions, resources, and people. Competing communities adapted the mission to their own designs; most notably, they drafted labor to raise ostentatious monastery complexes in the midst of mass death. While the mission fostered indigenous recovery, it also grounded Spanish imperial authority in the legitimacy of local native rule. The Mexican mission became one of the most extensive in early modern history, with influences reverberating on Spanish frontiers from New Mexico to Mindanao Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO; viewed June 27, 2019) Subject RELIGION -- Christian Ministry -- Missions. Missions SUBJECT Mexico -- History -- Spanish colony, 1540-1810 -- Missions Mexico -- History -- Spanish colony, 1540-1810 -- Church history Subject Mexico Genre/Form Church history History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781108600576 1108600573 9781108602310 1108602312

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