Papers by Claudia Brosseder
Words and Worlds Turned Around: Indigenous Christianities in Colonial Latin America, 2017
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Jun 1, 2010
In: La Biblia en la literatura hispanoamericana, ed. Geneviève Fabry and Daniel Attala. Madrid: E... more In: La Biblia en la literatura hispanoamericana, ed. Geneviève Fabry and Daniel Attala. Madrid: Editorial Trotta, 2016, 51-68
In: The Andean World, ed. Linda Seligmann and Kathleen S. Fine-Dare. London, New York: Routledge ... more In: The Andean World, ed. Linda Seligmann and Kathleen S. Fine-Dare. London, New York: Routledge 2019, pp. 161-174
In: A Companion to Early Modern Lima, ed. Emily Engel. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2019
in: Wor(l)ds Turned Around: Indigenous Christianities in the Americas, ed. by David Tavárez. Univ... more in: Wor(l)ds Turned Around: Indigenous Christianities in the Americas, ed. by David Tavárez. University Press of Colorado (forthcoming, fall 2017).
Nuevo mundo mundos nuevos, 2014
God in the Enlightenment, 2016
Journal of the History of Ideas, 2005
... The Writing in the Wittenberg Sky: Astrology in Sixteenth-Century Germany. Claudia Brosseder.... more ... The Writing in the Wittenberg Sky: Astrology in Sixteenth-Century Germany. Claudia Brosseder. ... On May 26, 1555, while the Margrave Johann of Küstrin armed for a tournament against Prince Elector August of Saxonia, he asked his astrologer Petrus Hosmann for advice. ...
This article discusses three aspects of the history of astrology in seventeenth-century Peru that... more This article discusses three aspects of the history of astrology in seventeenth-century Peru that are of larger interest for the history of science in Latin America: Creole concerns about indigenous idolatry, the impact of the Inquisition on natural philosophy, and communication between scholars within the Span-ish colonies and the transatlantic world. Drawing mainly on the scholars Antonio de la Calancha, Juan de Figueroa, and Ruiz de Lozano, along with several Jesuits, the article analyzes how natural and medical astrology took shape in Peru and how they fostered astronomical investigations of the southern skies. While natural and medical astrology, showing New and Old World influences, oscillated between ortho-doxy and heterodoxy, and between scholasticism and new science, judicial astrology remained undeveloped. Toward the end of the seventeenth century the discourse about astrology took an unexpected turn, reflecting a newly invigorated moral and Christian reading of the heavens that was in part a response to a deep-rooted dissatisfaction with the failure of the extirpation of idolatry campaigns. Inscribing divine and cardinal virtues, the Virgin Mary, Christian saints, and Greco-Roman allegories into the heavens was considered a way to finally solve the problem of idolatry and to convey Creole greatness.
Books by Claudia Brosseder
Pittsburgh University Press, 2023
From majestic Amazonian macaws and highland Andean hawks to tiny colorful tanagers and tall flami... more From majestic Amazonian macaws and highland Andean hawks to tiny colorful tanagers and tall flamingos, birds and their feathers played an important role in the Inka empire. Claudia Brosseder uncovers the many meanings that Inkas attached to the diverse fowl of the Amazon, the eastern Andean foothills, and the highlands. She shows how birds and feathers shaped Inka politics, launched wars, and initiated peace. Feathers provided protection against unpredictable enemies, made possible communication with deities, and brought an imagined Inka past into a political present. Richly textured contexts of feathered objects recovered from Late Horizon archaeological records and from sixteenth- and seventeenth-century accounts written by Spanish interlocutors enable new insights into Inka visions of interspecies relationships, an Inka ontology, and Inka views of the place of the human in their ecology. Inka Bird Idiom invites reconsideration of the deep intellectual ties that connected the Amazon and the mountain forests with the Andean highlands and the Pacific coast.
University of Texas Press, 2014
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Papers by Claudia Brosseder
Books by Claudia Brosseder