Conflict and conversion in sixteenth century central Mexico : the Augustinian War on and beyond the Chichimeca frontier / by Robert H. Jackson.

In the sixteenth century Franciscan, Dominican, and Augustinian missionaries attempted to convert the native populations of central Mexico. The native peoples generally viewed the new religion in terms very different from that of the missionaries. As conflict broke out after 1550 as Spaniards invade...

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Main Author: Jackson, Robert H. (Robert Harry), 1938-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013.
Series:European expansion and indigenous response ; v. 12.
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Table of Contents:
  • Setting the stage : native peoples and Augustinian missions in Central Mexico and beyond the Chichimeca frontier
  • The war against Satan and sin : the open chapel murals of San Nicolás Tolentino and Santa María Xoxoteco
  • The holy war against the Chichimecas : the Ixmiquilpan Church mural series
  • Beyond the Chichimeca frontier : Augustinian evangelization of the Sierra Gorda, sixteenth to Eighteenth centuries.