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el Caribe, España y Portugal

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The work offers the transcription of the list of conquistadores of New Spain and their votes in the election of their procurators on 9th January 1529. There is an introduction concerning the conserved copies and the context of the election. Following a heated discussion in the principal church of Mexico City the election took place before the members of the Audiencia who, after the vote counting, upon request of the conquistadores, publicly named the four most voted.

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The following article explores the transfer of ancient and medieval narratives of herbolaria, hermetica and hagiography to Yucatecan texts of the 17th and 18th centuries. The identification of books printed in the 16th century that circulated in Mayan geography —derived from the old world — allows to check in the texts written in the southeast of New Spain the continuity and bifurcation of medical narratives of poison and remedy; narratives of revelation of feminine and astrological secrets; narratives of virtuous lives, apparitions and miracles.The study exposes in four Yucatecan texts of the novohispano period narratives coming from the Mediterranean space. These are complex narratives that for expository purposes are reduced to simple nouns: poison, secret and virtue. The European books in the convents of Yucatan and in the small secular libraries did not disappear with the change of the centuries nor with the climatic inclemencies of the Caribbean. Part of the content of these ancient and medieval books moved to foundational texts of regional culture, to the origin of the Hispanic tradition of the Yucatan.

Texto sobre el 50 aniversiario de la revista Estudios de Historia Novohispana

Presentación al número especial de aniversario

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The present group of texts correspond to a series of letters and a questionnaire signed by fray Juan de los Reyes, Carmelite provincial of New Spain, addressed to fray Agustín de la Madre de Dios, a Carmelite friar appointed in 1646 as chronicler of the Province of San Alberto. These three documents are invaluable because they form the backbone that guided almost seven years of research, which resulted in the writing of the first and second versions of the chronicle entitled: Tesoro Escondido en el Monte Carmelo mexicano. Mina rica de exemplos y virtudes en la historia de los Carmelitas Descalzos de la provincia de la Nueva España.

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