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Summary:

"Generations of scholars have studied the multifaceted experiences of the Franciscans in Mexico and how the Franciscan order shaped New Spain and the early Mexican republic. Recent scholarship has given long-overdue attention to the evangelized natives. Most of these works focus on a specific region or period, or on a particular aspect of Franciscan ministries in New Spain. A comprehensive account of the Franciscans in Mexico over the long term has been missing, until now. This book analyzes the Franciscans engagement with native peoples, creole populations, the viceregal authorities, and the Spanish empire as a whole in order to offer a broad picture of Catholic evangelization in North America while keeping the Franciscans at the center of the story. Published in 2021, during commemoration of the quincentenary of the Spanish - and thus the Franciscan - presence in Mexico, the book brings together the research of junior and senior scholars from Mexico, Spain, and the United States on the long-enduring and far-reaching Franciscan presence in Mexico"-- [Provided by publisher]

Table of Contents:

• My Encounter with the Franciscans and with History / Fr. Francisco Morales, OFM
• Visions in the Service of Virtue: Rhetorical Mysticism in Motolinía's Memoriales / Hilaire Kallendorf
• Fray Juan Bautista de Viseo's Missionary Work in Three Languages: A Synthesis of the Sixteenth Century in New Spain / Verónica Murillo Gallegos
• Games, Sacrality, and the Formation of Colonial Society in Mexico City / Jonathan Truitt
• The Landa Conundrum / Matthew Restall
• Sapientia et Doctrina: The Structure of Franciscan Education in San José Province and the Teaching of Alphabetic Literacy among the Yucatec Maya, 1545-1650 / John F. Chuchiak, IV
• The Travels of El devoto peregrino: A Franciscan Holy Land Comes to New Spain / Karen Melvin
• From Celebration to Retreat: Changes in the Discourse on the Martyrdom of Franciscan Missionaries in Central and Northern New Spain, Sixteenth through Nineteenth Centuries / José Refúgio de la Torre Curiel
• The Catholic Missions of the Sierra Gorda before Junípero Serra / Steven W. Hackel
• Congregación and Control: The Franciscan Experience in Baja California / Rose Marie Beebe and Robert Senkewicz
• Defining Time and Space: Franciscans and Bells in Northern New Spain / Kristin Dutcher Mann
• Franciscans in Northeastern New Spain / Cecilia Sheridan Prieto
• Franciscans, Jesuits, and the Desire for Martyrdom in New Spain / Emanuele Colombo.

Contributors:

Cohen, Thomas M., 1957- , editor

Harrison, Jay T. , editor

Rex Galindo, David , editor

Morales, Francisco, 1937- , dedicatee

Academy of American Franciscan History , issuing body

Mexican Cultural Institute (Washington, D.C.) , host institution

Meetings:

Franciscans in Mexico: Five Centuries of Cultural Influence (Conference) (2017 : Mexican Cultural Institute, Washington, D.C.) , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

The Franciscans in colonial Mexico [Franciscans in Mexico: Five Centuries of Cultural Influence (Conference)]

Related Works:

Franciscans in Mexico: Five Hundred Years of Cultural Infuence

Subjects:

Franciscans — Missions — Mexico — History — Congresses

Franciscans — Missions — Southwest, New — History — Congresses

Evangelistic work — Catholic Church — History — Congresses

Evangelistic work — Mexico — Congresses

Evangelistic work — Southwest, New — Congresses

Mexico — History — Spanish colony, 1540-1810 — Congresses

Southwest, New — History — To 1848 — Congresses

Genres:

Conference papers and proceedings

General Notes:

"... the conference The Franciscans in Mexico: Five Hundred Years of Cultural Infuence. The Academy [of American Franciscan History] provided most of the funding for the conference, which took place in Washington, D.C. in October 2017."--Acknowledgments, page vii.
"Our conference celebrated the eightieth birthday of Fray Francisco Morales Valerio, OFM, the dean of Franciscan studies in Mexico."--Acknowledgments, page vii.
Includes bibliographical references and index.

Physical Description:

x, 361 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Call Numbers:

BX3612.A1 F747 2017

ISBNs:

9780806169255 (hardback)
0806169257 (hardback)

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2021032210

OCLC Numbers:

1243261471