La Conquistadora
The Virgin Mary at War and Peace in the Old and New Worlds
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 13 February 2014
- ISBN 9780199893003
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages480 pages
- Size 229x155x33 mm
- Weight 612 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
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.
MoreLong description:
Through the Virgin Mary, Remensnyder examines the dynamics of Christian and non-Christian identity in the pre-modern Spanish world. Rather than focusing on the Virgin Mary, she instead uses the Virgin as a lens to understand how people established identities for themselves in the contexts of domination and devotion. The first half of the book looks at how Spanish Christians used the Virgin's martial functions to draw lines of demarcation between themselves and non-Christians both metaphoric differences such as doctrinal differences and religious polemic and physical ones of war. She could also embody religious borderlands, the places of hybrid and fluid spiritual identities. The second half of the book looks at how the Virgin served as a place of passage where religious lines could be crossed through conversion. The book considers Christian stories that depict Mary as a particularly effective agent in the conversion of Jews, Muslims, and natives of the Americas. The project also examines those Jews, Muslims, and Indians who converted to Christianity: the Virgin was a figure of power through whom they could express their new hybrid identities.
Remensnyder's volume has the merit of uniting the history of the Spanish Reconquest and the conquest of the new continent. It brings together literature and history in a refreshing way. Both these approaches are too infrequently followed.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments
Introduction: New Mexico, 1992
Part One: The Virgin and the Reconquest
Introduction
1. Marian Monarchs and the Virgin's Realm
2. Heroes and History
3. In a Man's World
Part Two: Spiritual Politics
Introduction
4. Mary's Enemies, Mary's Friends
5. Lady of the Enemies
6. Mother of Conversion
Part Three: New Worlds
Introduction
7. Marian Conquistadors and Lay Evangelists
8. Our Precious Mother
9. Relics of the Conquest
10. The Return of the Virgin
Epilogue: Medieval New Mexico and Mestizaje
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index
