Northern New Spain
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Recent papers in Northern New Spain
This paper presented new research on Jesuit visual culture in New Spain, situating Santa María de las Parras (founded 1598) as an important site winemaking and art production on the northeastern borderlands of colonial Mexico. The Jesuits... more
Autorizada la reproducción y distribución sin fines de lucro de este texto íntegro y con sus créditos. No se permite la modificación. Introducción a la conquista española en el norte de Nueva España
Este ensayo trata del sistema de abastecimiento de las misiones de la Compañía de Jesús en el noroeste de la Nueva España. Sostiene que los jesuitas participaron en la cultura material y de consumo en vías de globalización, lo... more
This essay explores the ways in which Jesuit martyrdom images circulated from the northern missions of New Spain to Europe via Mexico City. These portraits directly inspired the creation of new artworks in early seventeenth-century Rome,... more
The polychaetous annelid Diopatra biscayensis Fauchald et al., 2012 was recently described from the Atlantic coast of France. It has been the subject of a plethora of publications dealing with its importance in the field of ecology: from... more
The subterranean realm of the Cantabrian-Pyrenean region of northern Spain harbours a rich diversity of Zospeum. Due to their tiny size and the difficulty of finding them alive, scarce animal material has been available for scientific... more
"THE Spanish conquest of America would have been impossible without the willful collabo ration of Indian allies, massively recruited from an early stage as warriors, guides, scouts, and interpreters." This chapter is centered on Otomí... more
This essay examines the unique nature of evangelization history on the viceregal frontier in northern New Spain, where missionaries defended the limits of the Spanish empire and also moved frequently between urban and mission spaces. As... more
This study extends previous arachnological work carried out in the former Montaña de Covadonga National Park. We studied the diversity of Araneae in two kinds of scrubland -dominated by Erica and Ulex or by Genista- and in rocky areas, by... more
En algún momento de la historia, el territorio de Alaska fue la frontera norte de la Nueva España, y con esto la expansión territorial de la Colonia alcanzaría todo el continente. La mitad del Continente Americano, desde Alaska hasta... more
Taking an interdisciplinary approach, this article parts from the analysis of a Jesuit text published in the 18th century, Ignaz Pfefferkorn’s Description of the province of Sonora. Written within the formal scheme of a natural history,... more
The manuscript that is here transcribed, analyzed and translated bears a fundamental importance for the history the American Southwest. It contains the report or “Autos Tocantes al alsamiento de/ los yndios de la provinçia de la/ Nueba... more
This article presents new research on Jesuit visual culture in northern New Spain, situating Santa María de las Parras (founded 1598) as an important site where the Jesuits and secular landowners became involved in the lucrative business... more
Le principal intérêt de cet ouvrage réside dans l'approche microhistorique de groupes sociaux aux trajectoires individuelles inattendues. Il renouvelle en partie le regard que l'on porte sur les populations indifférenciées des centres... more