La Conquistadora The Virgin Mary at War and Peace in the Old and New Worlds |
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Author:
| Remensnyder, Amy G. |
ISBN: | 978-0-19-989300-3 |
Publication Date: | Mar 2014 |
Publisher: | Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | AUD $79.95AUD $105.95 |
Book Description:
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Amy Remensnyder explores how Spanish Christians shaped the Virgin Mary as a symbol of the twinned colonizing enterprises of conquest and conversion in medieval Spain and early Spanish America. Beginning in the eleventh century and ending in the seventeenth century, the book brings together the medieval and early modern periods, the Old and New Worlds.
Amy Remensnyder explores how Spanish Christians shaped the Virgin Mary as a symbol of the twinned colonizing enterprises of conquest and conversion in medieval Spain and early Spanish America. Beginning in the eleventh century and ending in the seventeenth century, the book brings together the medieval and early modern periods, the Old and New Worlds.