Historians have long recognized that the classical heritage of
ancient Rome contributed to the development of a vibrant society in
Spanish South America, but was the impact a one-way street?
Although the Spanish destruction of the Incan empire changed the
Andes forever, the civil society that did emerge was not the result
of Andeans and Creoles passively absorbing the wisdom of ancient
Rome. Rather, Sabine MacCormack proposes that civil society was
born of the intellectual endeavors that commenced with the invasion
itself, as the invaders sought to understand an array of cultures.
Looking at the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century people who wrote
about the Andean region that became Peru, MacCormack reveals how
the lens of Rome had a profound influence on Spanish understanding
of the Incan empire.
Tracing the varied events that shaped Peru as a country,
MacCormack shows how Roman and classical literature provided a
framework for the construal of historical experience. She turns to
issues vital to Latin American history, such as the role of
language in conquest, the interpretation of civil war, and the
founding of cities, to paint a dynamic picture of the genesis of
renewed political life in the Andean region. Examining how
missionaries, soldiers, native lords, and other writers employed
classical concepts to forge new understandings of Peruvian society
and history, the book offers a complete reassessment of the ways in
which colonial Peru made the classical heritage uniquely its
own.
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