Product Description: Book by Williams, Jerry M.

Product Description: The distinguished professor and scholar Jerry M. Williams, Chair, Department of Foreign Languages, West Chester University, offers us yet another outstanding contribution to our understanding of inquisitorial practices in the New World and one of its most celebrated victims, a Judaizer, María Francisca Ana de Castro, the last prisoner and Jew to be burned at the stakes in the only public auto-da-fé in Peru during the eighteenth century...read more

Product Description: This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process...read more

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Product Description: Scripta Humanistica. 1994. 238 p.This is the first translation and critical edition of Peralta's work. The Diálogo, an allegorical satire, has challengedscholars for centuries; it represents a critique of pre-Enlightenment academies and a defense of artistic freedom...read more

Product Description: Contributions from anthropology, history, political science, literature, the natural sciences, religion, and philosophy provide a comprehensive overview of the diverse influences America had on Europe. Topics covered include the impact of early botanical and geographic studies on Europe and on the scientific revolution, the structure of indigenous and colonial cultures, and the ideology and ethics of conquest and enslavement...read more

Product Description: Como parte íntegra de la campaña espiritual realizada en la Nueva España, el teatro misionero sirvió fines catequísticos y didácticos que resultaron en interpretaciones únicas de historias de índole bíblica y en atractivos enfoques del dogma cristiano...read more