La Conquistadora : the Virgin Mary at War and Peace in the Old and New Worlds/ Amy G. Remensnyder.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Remensnyder, Amy G. (Amy Goodrich), 1960- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint.

Mary.

Physical Description:

ix, 470 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, [2014]

Summary:

La Conquistadora explores Mary's prominence on and off the battlefield in the culturally and ethnically diverse world of medieval Iberia, where Muslims, Christians, and Jews lived side by side, and in colonial Mexico, where Spaniards and indigenous peoples mingled.

Contents:

Part 1 The Virgin and the Reconquest

Introduction 15

1 Marian Monarchs and the Virgins Realm 31

2 Heroes and History 61

3 In a Man's World 92

Part 2 Spiritual Politics

Introduction 121

4 Mary's Enemies, Mary's Friends 130

5 Lady of the Enemies 147

6 Mother of Conversion 175

Part 3 New Worlds

Introduction 209

7 Marian Conquistadors and Lay Evangelists 224

8 Our Precious Mother 261

9 Relics of the Conquest 294

10 The Return of the Virgin 330.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780199892983

0199892989

9780199893003

0199893004

OCLC:

862148576