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Showing posts with label colonial mexico. Show all posts
Showing posts with label colonial mexico. Show all posts
Friday, May 1, 2020

Epidemics in Colonial Mexico

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Portrayal of Epidemic Colonial Mexico Although feels like it, Covid19 is not the first pandemic the world has ever known. Everyone has ...
Friday, August 29, 2014

Colonial Mexico in the Continental United States: Where was Colonial Mexico?

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Map of the Viceroyalty of New Spain ( click to enlarge) In colonial times, the Spanish controlled vast territories in the New World, ext...
Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Mexican Christs: Cristos de Caña

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Cathedral, Merida, Yucatan Christ carried in Good Friday procession, Merida, Yucatan (Mary is visible behind) In my last post, ...
Friday, March 22, 2013

Location, location, location: Churches on top of Pyramids

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Nuestra Senora de los Remedios, Cholula, Puebla This church (first built in 1594-1666) appears to be sitting on top of the crest of ...
Thursday, March 21, 2013

From Pyramid to Church

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The landscape of Mexico had always been a sacred one, dotted with the pyramids and temples of its inhabitants.  The ruins we have left t...
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Friday, March 15, 2013

The Friars: Peace Corps 16th century style

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Parade during Festival of St. Michael the Archangel (San Miguel d'Allende, 2010) Friars from the religious orders followed the C...
Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Mindset of the Spanish Conquest

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Medieval " Wikipedia": The Bible Imagine a world without Google, Wikipedia, encyclopedias, libraries, in fact without boo...
Tuesday, March 12, 2013

The Spanish Conquest: the good, the bad and the beautiful

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Cortes and Company Recently I taught an introductory course on Colonial Latin American Art and  Architecture to a group of adults.  At ...
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