Revista Estudios de Historia Novohispana
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Gerardo Lara Cisneros y Roberto Martínez González, eds., El ídolo y las hogueras. Idolatría y evangelización en la América virreinal, siglos xvi-xviii, Tiempo emulado, Historia de América y España 90 (Madrid: Iberoame-ricana-Vervuert; Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas, 2023). 300 pp
(2025)The review discusses two volumes edited by Gerardo Lara Cisneros and Roberto Martínez González that explore idolatry and evangelization in colonial America during the 16th to 18th centuries. Through an analysis of the ... -
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David Eduardo Tavárez, Rethinking Zapotec Time. Cosmology, Ritual, and Resistance in Colonial Mexico (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2022). 448 pp.
(2025)This review analyzes the work of David Eduardo Tavárez, "Rethinking Zapotec Time," focusing on the relationship between cosmology, ritual, and resistance in Zapotec culture during the colonial era. Through a detailed ... -
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Marta María Manchado López, ed., Convivencia y conflicto en la frontera oriental de la Monarquía hispánica. Filipinas (siglos xvi-xviii) (Madrid: Sílex Ediciones, 2022). 326 pp.
(2025)The review of "Convivencia y conflicto en la frontera oriental de la Monarquía hispánica. Filipinas (siglos xvi-xviii)," coordinated by Marta María Manchado López, highlights the significance of this collective work that ... -
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Ysla Campbell, Varia documenta. Para la historia de la cultura letrada en la Nueva Vizcaya (Madrid: Iberoamericana-Vervuert, 2023). 189 pp.
(2025)The review of "Varia documenta" by Ysla Campbell highlights the compilation of 14 documents concerning the literate culture of the kingdom of Nueva Vizcaya, proposing a methodological revision in novohispanic historiography. ... -
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Daniela Pastor Téllez, Las virreinas. Mujeres y poder en la Nueva España de los siglos xvi y xvii. Colección Novohispana 8 (México: Bonilla Artigas Edi-tores, 2023). 232 pp.
(2025)The review of the book "Las virreinas. Mujeres y poder en la Nueva España de los siglos XVI y XVII" (The Viceresses: Women and Power in New Spain in the 16th and 17th Centuries) by Daniela Pastor Téllez, written by Antonio ... -
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¿Una jurisdicción imposible? La Verapaz y su diócesis (1554-1608)
(2025)"This article presents a reexamination of the history of the Verapaz diocese, during the latter half of the 16th century, with a focus on exploring initiatives aimed at establishing this jurisdiction as a viable one. Despite ... -
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Enfermedades y atención a los pacientes ingresados en el Hospital de San Cosme y San Damián de Antequera, Oaxaca (1703-1710)
(2025)The article analyzes the medical care provided at the San Cosme and San Damián hospital in Antequera, Oaxaca, from 1703 to 1710. The main source is the only preserved book of the hospital which registers the admission of ... -
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Caminos, puentes y hamacas. Tecnología vial vernácula en la Sierra Norte de Oaxaca
(2025)The aim of this text is to show the development of road infrastructure in a peripheral region of the viceroyalty of New Spain: the mayor’s office of Villa Alta, in the Sierra Norte of Oaxaca, during the colonial period. ... -
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La visión mestiza novohispana del siglo XVI sobre el sacrificio humano indígena
(2025)This article studies the imaginary of indigenous sacrifice in the mestizo vision of the 16th century. As primary sources I have used the three novohispanic mestizo narratives of the same period: Diego Muñoz Camargo, Juan ... -
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Historia de los fallidos viajes de Diego de Ontiveros Hinojosa de Yucatán a Tierra Firme, 1660-1685
(2025)Based on the events that marked the travel attempts from Mérida —in the bishopric of Yucatán— to Popayán —in the New Kingdom of Granada— of the clergyman Diego de Ontiveros Hinojosa, who had to assume the deanery in the ... -
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Los censos modernos en la monarquía hispánica y el proceso de desencanto del mundo con comentarios sobre el caso de Yucatán
(2025)This essay delves into the study of modern censuses in Spain in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, placing them in the context of the rationalization of authority. Utilizing the Weberian concept of the “disenchantment ... -
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La administración de las temporalidades del Colegio de San Francisco Xavier de Puebla (1767-1773)
(2025)This article deals with the administrative dispositions that were taken after the expulsion of the Society of Jesus from New Spain. For this purpose, we will analyze the resolutions taken about the Jesuit institute of San ... -
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De la autoridad civil a la eclesiástica. Los juicios contra Nicolás de Ales en Nueva España, 1590-1592
(2025)In 1590, a French vessel shipwrecked on the eastern coastline of the Yucatan peninsula. The survivors were prosecuted for pillage by the civil authorities. However, suspicions of offenses against the faith led to the opening ... -
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Funerary Emblems in Manila and the Rise of Devotion to Jerónima de la Asunción, OSC (1555-1630)
(2024)This paper examines a collection of 42 funerary emblems, or jeroglificos in Spanish, crafted in honour of the Spanish Abbess Mother Jerónima de la Asunción (1555-1630), the foundress of the first female monastery in the ... -
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A “Large and Undisciplined” Clergy: Utopia and Reality of Reform to the Secular Clergy in the Archbishopric of Mexico, 1764-1810
(2024)This paper analyzes the reform of the secular clergy in the archbishopric of Mexico between 1764 and 1810 in two major regards: the excessive number of priests and their indiscipline. During the eighteenth century various ... -
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Alejandro García-Montón, Genoese Entrepreneurship and the Asiento Slave Trade, 1650-1700 (Nueva York/Londres: Routledge, 2022).
(2024)Review of Alejandro García-Montón, Genoese Entrepreneurship and the Asiento Slave Trade, 1650-1700 (Nueva York/Londres: Routledge, 2022). -
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Review of Mark Santiago, A bad peace and a good war. Spain and the Mescalero Apache Uprising of 1795–1799
(2024)Review of Mark Santiago, A Bad Peace and a Good War. Spain and the Mescalero Apache Uprising of 1795-1799 (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2020). -
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Nicole von Germeten, The Enlightened Patrolman. Early Law Enforcement in Mexico City (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2022).
(2024)Review of Nicole von Germeten, The Enlightened Patrolman. Early Law Enforcement in Mexico City (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2022). -
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Genaro Valencia Constantino y Mario Humberto Ruz Sosa, El arzobispado de Guatemala. Documentos sobre su creación (1742-1747) (México: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Instituto de Investigaciones Filológicas, Centro de Estudios Mayas, 2022).
(2024)Review of Genaro Valencia Constantino y Mario Humberto Ruz Sosa, El arzobispado de Guatemala. Documentos sobre su creación (1742-1747) (México: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Instituto de Investigaciones Filológicas, ... -
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Muriel Laurent, ed., y comp., El sello de Amberes. Libros flamencos en Santafé, siglos xvi y xvii (Bogotá: Ediciones Uniandes/Universidad del Rosario, 2021).
(2024)Review of Muriel Laurent, ed., y comp., El sello de Amberes. Libros flamencos en Santafé, siglos XVI y XVII (Bogotá: Ediciones Uniandes/Universidad del Rosario, 2021).