Book Review: The Codex Mexicanus: A Guide to Life in Late Sixteenth-Century New Spain, by Lori Boornazian Diel

The study of the opposition to the Third Mexican Council of 1585 provides a fascinating picture, not only of the determined efforts to undo the work of the most important ecclesiastical meeting of colonial New Spain but also of the various hostilities and animosities, intrigues and rivalries, that were at work in New Spain toward the end of the sixteenth century In the Third Council, the bickering of secular and religious priests, the opposition of bishops to the exorbitant privileges of the religious orders, the encroachments of the civil authority into the domain of the ecclesiastical, and the determination of clerics to defend their privileges and jurisdiction, all converged on the questions of (1) should the Council be permitted to publish its decrees and (2), once published, could they be put into execution?

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Epilogue, as Prologue

The History of the Future in Colonial Mexico ◽

10.12987/yale/9780300233933.003.0007 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 174-182

Author(s):

Matthew D. O'Hara

Keyword(s):

Sixteenth Century ◽

New Spain ◽

Indigenous Communities ◽

Spanish Conquest ◽

The Past

This concluding chapter looks at the discovery of a perplexing set of documents created in New Spain. Referred to as títulos primordiales, or primordial titles, the sources described the founding of Indigenous communities in the aftermath of the Spanish conquest in the sixteenth century. The títulos resonate strongly with other colonial documents of futuremaking and the shared ways of relating to time surveyed throughout this book. The Indigenous authors of the primordial titles engaged in a radical act of situating themselves in time: they marshaled the resources of the past, the resources of memory, and the resources of tradition to achieve goals in the present and craft diverse futures. Sometimes they presented their assembled resources as a narrative of the sixteenth-century present, at other times in the form of history or chronicle.

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Sixteenth-century Mexican Monasteries and Art. An Anthropological Perspective

Ethnologia Actualis ◽

10.2478/eas-2018-0011 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 18 (1) ◽

pp. 93-124

Author(s):

Monika Brenišínová

Keyword(s):

Native American ◽

Sixteenth Century ◽

New Spain ◽

Anthropological Perspective ◽

Monastic Architecture ◽

History Of Art ◽

History Of

Abstract This paper deals with sixteenth-century Mexican monastic architecture and art. Mexican monasteries were constructed all over the territory of New Spain (1635-1821) in relation to the need to evangelize the native American populations. The article discusses the place of this architecture and art in the historiography of the history of art taking into consideration the changes of paradigms and putting particular emphasis on anthropology and its approaches. In terms of method, it is interdisciplinary and combines synchronic and diachronic perspectives.

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