La Conquistadora

The Virgin Mary at War and Peace in the Old and New Worlds
Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-0-19-989300-3
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 480 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 814 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Remensnyder, Amy G

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen Christliche und christlich motivierte Bewegungen und Sekten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 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

Über Autor(innen)

Amy G. Remensnyder is Associate Professor of History, Brown University. She is the author of Remembering Kings Past: Monastic Foundation Legends in Medieval Southern France and co-editor of the forthcoming Why the Middle Ages Matter.