Dear all, In relation to discussions at the team meeting of 1) conversion and syncretism, 2) desire to engage more with forms of (de-)conversion that are coercive or violent, and 3) desire for more engagement with areas outside of Europe and intra-Christian conversion, I started thinking about the potential of […]
Jason R. Young, Francisco Laucirica; Stéfan Sinclair, and José R. Jouve-Martin. – Institute for the Public Life of Arts & Ideas, McGill University Founded in 1535, Lima served as the colonial capital of the Viceroyalty of Peru. For almost three centuries, the city was also one of the Spanish Empire’s […]
Hi everyone, This is a brief and tentative annotated bibliography of sources for early modern texts in Spanish in OCR formats. I’m working towards a broad compilation of texts, with a focus on those which might be relevant to “cities as theaters of conversion.” There are few specialized host sites, […]
Hi Everyone: This is an overlong abstract that I drafted as if for the CCLA panel that José and Stephen have proposed, even though I won’t be able to take part in that conference next May. José and Stephen kindly suggested that I post it now to the blog. So […]
Dear Group Members, As some of you may already know, IPLAI will hold an Early Modern Conversions reading group at McGill in the coming year. The sessions will be recorded and put up on the site, so those of you based outside of Montreal will be able to listen in. […]
Hello everyone, It is a pleasure to be back in the Conversions circle; I very much look forward to sharing my research, and contributing to the group in the near future. As I have not had the chance to do so in the past, I would like to use this […]
Hello Everybody, I want to pose three questions about conversion that I hope you will weigh in on. This exercise gives me a chance to articulate some ideas I’ve been thinking about recently, and also provides a very welcome alternative to the pile of term papers that I had planned […]
The research work for my PhD candidacy revolves around the city of Puebla, in New Spain, present-day Mexico. The project is divided into two parts: in the first part I’m interested in studying its foundation origins, and particularly the symbolic dimension of its urban traits, such as the grid layout, […]
Dear Colleagues: This will be a linkless comment, in an interstice of the “lettered city” already opened for us by José and Stephen. Having granted with Rama that the cleared ground on which the conquistadors laid out their perfectly ordered cities / theatres of conversion in the New World was […]
Dear Colleagues, Inspired by José’s post from earlier this week, I wanted to share a few ideas that I have been turning over in my head since our meeting last August. What follows is, in part, a response to the readings from José, but also a proposal for how […]
