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La Conquistadora

By Remensnyder

La Conquistadora

By Remensnyder

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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.
Product details
Edition:
illustrated
Number of Pages:
482
Release Date:
2014-01-24
Publication Date:
2019-01-17
Publisher:
ACADEMIC
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0199892989
ISBN13:
9780199892983
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
884 g
Height:
161 cm
Width:
240 cm
Thickness:
30 cm
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