Book Review: Missionary Scientists: Jesuit Science in Spanish South America, 1570-1810doi:10.1177/239693931203600118Christoffer Grundmann
He traveled to Central America, acting as a missionary among the Maya of Guatemala and participating in debates among colonial churchmen about how best to bring the natives to the Christian faith. Traveling back to Spain to recruit more missionaries, he continued lobbying for the abolition of ...
Examines Jesuit and Franciscan representations of the Tepehuan and Pueblo revolts in northern new Spain during the seventeenth century. Missionaries' comments regarding the origins and causes of both uprisings; Contingent factors that affected missionary perceptions and representations of Indian behavior.年...
Jesuit missionary Phillip Segesser served the Spanish Crown in this region, which the Spanish colonists called thePimería Alta. In 1731 he sent a letter to his family in Switzerland requesting many seeds for the mission garden, including hemp, flax, turnip, carrot, beet, fennel, caraway, anise...
While the Spanish donkey was invented in Europe, it soon made its way to the New World. One of the first recorded uses of the device was by Jesuits in modern-day Canada. According toThe Jesuit Relations, which chronicled the Christian order’s missionary expeditions in French colonies across...
fortifying the island would be in response to the growing number of non-Spanish ships sailing through the Pacific. These ships, often sailed by pirates or privateers, posed a threat, in the eyes of Spain, to it’s profitable silver laden galleon-trade and missionary endeavors in the region....
One hundred years later so much had been lost. In the mid 1600s Jesuit missionary Francisco Alcina expressed what would be a common lament among Spanish observers in early colonial Philippines: native jewelry crafting traditions had been mostly forgotten and whatever the present-day “Indians” did...
Br. Carrera, a hardened veteran of the Florida missionary circuit had conflicting views about the journey north. Fr. Segura's plans were "praiseworthy, for they came from a holy, sincere Christian heart, and I gave him high praise. But I pointed out the difficulty in the execution of the...
.In 1791, and again in 1792, a census was ordered throughout theviceroyalty by ViceroyCondedeRevillagigedo. The actual returns came in during 1791 - 1794. PREFACE This pamphlet has been compiled in response to the need for a handy, lightweight dictionary of Colonial terms ...
JESUIT missionsSPANISH coloniesBORDERLANDSSOULCHURCH membershipINCASThis article examines two different missionary areas where the Society of Jesus was sent to evangelise the native population: the Andean territories previously under Inca domination and the remote Mariana Islands in the Pacific...