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Bonfires of Culture - Franciscans, Indigenous Leaders, and the Inquisition in Early Mexico, 1524-1540 (Paperback)
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Bonfires of Culture - Franciscans, Indigenous Leaders, and the Inquisition in Early Mexico, 1524-1540 (Paperback)
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In their efforts to convert indigenous peoples, Franciscan friars
brought the Spanish Inquisition to early-sixteenth-century Mexico.
Patricia Lopes Don now investigates these trials to offer an inside
look at this brief but consequential episode of Spanish methods of
colonization, providing a fresh interpretation of an early period
that has remained too long understudied.Drawing on previously
underutilized records of Inquisition proceedings, Don examines four
of the most important trials of native leaders to uncover the
Franciscans' motivations for using the Inquisition and the
indigenous response to it. She focuses on the consecutive impact of
four trials - against nahualli Martin Ocelotl, an influential
native priest; Andres Mixcoatl, an advocate of open resistance to
the Franciscans; Miguel Pochtecatl Tlaylotla, a guardian of native
religious artifacts; and Don Carlos of Texcoco, a native chief
burned at the stake for heresy. Don reveals the heart of Bishop
Zumarraga's methods of conducting the trials - including
spectacular bonfires in which any native idols found in the
possession of professed converts were destroyed. Don's knowledge of
the contemporary Spain that shaped the friars' perspectives enables
her to offer new understanding of the evolution of Franciscan
attitudes toward evangelization. Bonfires of Culture reexamines
important primary documents and offers a new perspective on a
pivotal historical era.
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