Between the New and the Old World: Iberian Prophecies and Imperial Projects in the Colonisation of the Early Modern Spanish and Portuguese Americas

Lima, Luís Filipe Silvério

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“…The major shortcoming of his essay is including a thinker like the Jesuit José de Acosta inside the Joachimite trend. It is hardly arguable since he, son of the post-Trent Church reform and counter-reformist agent, strongly denies the possibility of predicting the eschaton and stressed the idea that the epoch he was living in was not the End of Time (Acosta 1590;Pompa 2016;Silvério Lima 2016;Silvério Lima and Torres Megiani 2016). In his essay, West reflects much more on the European history of apocalyptic thought and, when analyzing Motolinia's and Mendieta's ideas, returns to the fundamental points of Phelan and Baudot.…”

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Almost millenarian: a critical rereading of Gerónimo de Mendieta’s eschatological thought and its historiography

Fracas¹

2017

Int J Lat Am Relig

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Franciscan Order stands as a central topic in the sixteenth century Spanish colonial history. Leaders of the spiritual conquest and early settlers of Mexico, Franciscans were among the first that recognized the importance of the New World recently discovered. Among them, fray Gerónimo de Mendieta is globally renowned as one of the most important personalities of his epoch. His works-several cartas, relaciones, and a complete and extensive chronicle-are considered an indispensable source of information. My essay will investigate how Mendieta and his writings were gradually discovered and then incorporated in the larger framework of the sixteenth century history. I will start from what I consider a Bfirst tradition^of studies that runs from the publication of his works in the late eighteenth century until the first half of the nineteenth. I will continue with a Bsecond tradition^that stressed Franciscan mysticism and outlined Mendieta's role in shaping a BMillenarian Kingdom^of Franciscans in the New World. I will then investigate a third generation of scholars that criticized this latter configuration, and I will end by briefly presenting my own reflection about Mendieta and his works.

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Almost millenarian: a critical rereading of Gerónimo de Mendieta’s eschatological thought and its historiography

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Ideas of Indigenous Resilience through Triangulated Model: Ecological Society Experiences of the United States of America and India

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2023

Indigenous Societies in the Post-Colonial World

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Between the New and the Old World: Iberian Prophecies and Imperial Projects in the Colonisation of the Early Modern Spanish and Portuguese Americas

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Almost millenarian: a critical rereading of Gerónimo de Mendieta’s eschatological thought and its historiography

Almost millenarian: a critical rereading of Gerónimo de Mendieta’s eschatological thought and its historiography

Ideas of Indigenous Resilience through Triangulated Model: Ecological Society Experiences of the United States of America and India

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