Narrated in this book are episodes from the life of a famous Spanish woman who entertained the Novohispanic court and society during the second half of the 18th century. The woman was Josepha Ordóñez, famous for her beauty ...

Alicia Mayer delves deeply into the Reform-Counter-Reformation conflict outside of European confines and within the American colonial ambit of the 17th and 18th Centuries. The ideological struggle between Protestantism and ...