This article discusses a religious movement occurred in the second half of the eighteenth century (1769) in a marginal region of New Spain, known as Sierra de Tutotepec (current state of Hidalgo). This was led by an old ...

This research identifies, provides biographical notes, and renders the family reconstruction (ascending and descending genealogy) of the knights of the Military Order of Alcántara, who were present in the viceroyalty ...

This article reviews Nicole von Germeten's book, "The Enlightened Patrolman. Early Law Enforcement in Mexico City," which examines the "guardafaroleros" or watchmen, who were responsible for maintaining public lighting and ...

In this paper I present the results of the analysis of doctrinal texts in Nahuatl produced by the Franciscans, sometimes in collaboration with their indigenous aides, focusing on the presence of and the attitude towards ...

This review highlights the significance of Alonso de Zorita’s Relación de la Nueva España as one of the last chronicles of the 16th century addressing the political, social, cultural, and religious life of New Spain. ...

In this review, Eduardo Matos Moctezuma analyzes Leonardo López Luján’s book on Captain Guillermo Dupaix and his 1794 archaeological album. The reviewed work combines a critical edition of an illustrated manuscript with a ...

This essay investigates the impact of the Encounter of America, particularly of the Franciscan missions, in the cultural production of New Spain. Specifically, it investigates the twofold power of Christian-Mexica feather ...

In 1997, the first part of these events of the Mexican nation came to light in Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl issue 27; twenty years later, we are presenting the Nahuatl text and its translation into Spanish of the second ...

The review discusses the critical edition of Fray Diego Durán’s 'Libro de los ritos' by Paloma Vargas Montes. It examines the author's life, the manuscript's creation process, textual transmission, and Durán's ethnographic ...

El artículo ofrece un panorama de la presencia portuguesa en Nueva España, cuyos primeros exponentes participaron ya en la conquista de estas tierras, entre los cuales se contó Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo. Sin ser exhaustivo, ...