This week we talked some more about the role of religion in defining gender roles in colonial Latin America. The Inquisition case of Marina de San Miguel displayed just how prominent the Church was in daily life, and as such it’s no surprise that if a woman did not marry, the only other really appetizing [...]
Archive for April, 2010
History 465: Week 15 Post: Beatas, etc.
Posted in History 465 on April 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
History 465: Week 14 Post-Inquisition
Posted in History 465 on April 20, 2010 | 1 Comment »
I’ve found our discussion of the Inquisition the past week to be both enlightening and a little disturbing. To me, what exactly the Inquisition involved has always been somewhat of a mystery, and it was interesting to learn about how this famous event was carried out in Latin America. The Inquisition might have resembled in [...]
History 465: Week 13 Post-Witchcraft
Posted in History 465 on April 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
It was interesting to look at witchcraft in the context of Latin America colonialism, because the word witchcraft conjures up images for most of us of the Salem witch trials, or of the stereotypically witch cackling over her cauldron of potions. I found it fascinating that witchcraft was actually used as a tool by women [...]
History 465: Week 12 Post-Ethnohistory
Posted in History 465 on April 12, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
For this week’s post I have chosen to discuss John Chuchiak IV’s article “The Sins of the Fathers” discussing the collision between Mayan sexual practices and those of the conquering Spanish. I found his analysis very interesting, as he used the missionary tools used by the friars such as their vocabularies and sermons to determine [...]
