La Conquistadora : the Virgin Mary at war and peace in the Old and New Worlds / Amy G. Remensnyder.
Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 2014Description: 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)Content type: text | still image Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780199388868 (ebook) :Subject(s): Mary, Blessed Virgin, SaintAdditional Physical Form: Print version : 9780199892983DDC classification: 232.91 LOC classification: BT603 | .R45 2014Online resources: Oxford scholarship online Summary: Amy Remensnyder explores how Spanish Christians shaped the Virgin Mary as a symbol of the twinned colonizing enterprises of conquest and conversion in medieval Spain and early Spanish America. Beginning in the eleventh century and ending in the seventeenth century, the book brings together the medieval and early modern periods, the Old and New Worlds.Item type | Current library | Class number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Amy Remensnyder explores how Spanish Christians shaped the Virgin Mary as a symbol of the twinned colonizing enterprises of conquest and conversion in medieval Spain and early Spanish America. Beginning in the eleventh century and ending in the seventeenth century, the book brings together the medieval and early modern periods, the Old and New Worlds.
Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on February 28, 2014).