A companion to viceregal Mexico City, 1519-1821 / edited by John F. López.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

López, John F., editor.

Series:

Brill's companions to the Americas ; Volume 3.

Brill's Companions to the Americas ; Volume 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mexico City (Mexico)--History.

Mexico City (Mexico).

Mexico--History--Spanish colony, 1540-1810.

Mexico.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2021]

Summary:

This book presents a historical overview of colonial Mexico City and the important role it played in the creation of the early modern Hispanic world. Organized into five sections, an interdisciplinary and international team of twenty scholars scrutinize the nature and character of Mexico City through the study of its history and society, religious practices, institutions, arts, and scientific, cartographic, and environmental endeavors. The Companion ultimately shows how viceregal Mexico City had a deep sense of history, drawing from all that the ancient Americas, Europe, Asia, and Africa offered but where history, culture, and identity twisted and turned in extraordinary fashion to forge a new society. Contributors are: Matthew Restall, Luis Fernando Granados, Joan C. Bristol, Sonya Lipsett-Rivera, Frances L. Ramos, Antonio Rubial García, Alejandro Cañeque, Cristina Cruz González, Iván Escamilla González, María del Pilar Martínez López-Cano, Enrique González González, Paula S. De Vos, Barbara E. Mundy, John F. López, Miruna Achim, Kelly Donahue-Wallace, Martha Lilia Tenorio, Jesús A. Ramos-Kitrell, Amy C. Hamman, and Stacie G. Widdifield.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Figures and Tables

Archival and Image Repositories

Notes on the Contributors

Acknowledgements

Viceregal Mexico City, Colonial Cosmopolitanism, and the Hispanic World

1 History and Society

2 Religious Life

3 Institutions

4 Special Themes

5 The Arts

Bibliography

Primary Sources

Secondary Literature

Part1: History and Society

1. Fear, Wonder, and Absence

1 The Conquistador Lens

2 Fear and Wonder

3 Absence

2. The Weirdest of All?

1 Indians and Cities

2 Between Civilization and Nature

3 A Paradoxical Decline

4 Making the City

5 Becoming Cosmopolitan

6 The Three-Headed City

7 Concrete Coloniality, Awkward Cosmpolitanism

3. Blackness and Blurred Boundaries in Mexico City

1 Afro-Mexicans in Mexico City and the Viceroyalty

2 Connecting and Identifying through Healing

3 Church-Based Practices and Networks

4 Spanish Anxieties and Limitations on Afro-Mexican Opportunities

5 Conclusion

4. Of Pleasures and Proscriptions

1 Birth and Childhood

2 Courtship and Couples

3 Families and Households

4 Gender, Sexuality, and Family

5. War, Legitimacy, and Ceremony in 18th-Century Mexico City

1 The Inauguration of Military Honors for Soldiers

2 Legitimizing the Bourbon Succession

3 Ceremony and Bourbon Absolutism in the 1760s

4 Conclusion

Part 2: Religious Life

6. City of Friars, City of Archbishops

1 The Struggle to Occupy Urban Space: The 16th-Century City.

2 The Religious Orders and the Initial Planning of the City, 1523-1554

3 The Clash Between Two Church Projects for the City: The Archbishop vs. The Monasteries, 1555-1570

4 Introduction of the Episcopal Model: New Religious Orders and New Convents, 1571-1600

5 The Ecclesiastical Institutions in the Baroque City, 1600-1700

6 Baroque Bishops and the Founding of Religious Institutions

7 The City of Friars and Jesuits

8 Epilogue

7. The Cabildo of Mexico City, Patron Saints, and the Making of Local and Imperial Identities

8. Visualizing Corporate Piety

1 Memory, History, Historiography: The Hospital de Jesús and the Scuola Grande

2 Performing Identity: Membership Books and Patents

3 Collective Devotion, Seeing Together

9. Permanence and Change in Mexico City's Viceregal Court, 1535-1821

1 Inventing Court

2 The Court and Its Social and Urban Setting

3 New Viceroys for a New Dynasty

4 From the Old Court to a New One

5 Enlightened Leaders

6 The Empty Throne

10. Finance and Credit in Viceregal Mexico City

1 Credit in Mexico City

2 Mercantile Credit

3 The Church Institutions and Credit

4 The Convents

5 The Chaplaincies

6 The Confraternities

7 The Inquisition

8 The Monte de Piedad

9 The Banco de Avío Minero

10 The End of an Epoch

11. Uneven Chances

1 The Head of the Kingdom

2 Educating the Indigenous Population: Maceguales and Lords

3 The World of the Criollos

4 Education and Bourbon Reforms

Secondary Literature.

12. Medicine and Municipal Rights in Viceregal Mexico City

1 Introduction

2 The Castilian Protomedicato: Establishment, Practice, and Jurisdiction

3 Reconquest Iberia: Aragón and Castile

4 Persistance of Medieval Fuero Limitations

5 The Protomedicato of New Spain: Regulation in the Capital

6 The Royal Protomedicato in the 18th Century: Increasing Jurisdiction and Authority

7 Effects in New Spain: Increasing Privileges, Increasing Municipal Challenges

8 Conclusion

Part 4: Special Themes

13. The Urban Plans of Mexico City, 1520-1810

2 Plans and the Multi-ethnic Population

3 Indigenous Foundations

4 Early Hybrids

5 Mapping the Desagüe

6 Mapping Reform Proposals of the 18th Century

7 The City in Printed Form

8 The Plans of Mexico City's Past

9 Conclusion

14. The Desagüe's Watermark

1 A City Aflood

2 Mapping Nature's Character

3 "The Geometrization of Space"

4 The Talisman of Martínez' Authority

5 Rupturing the Bond Between City and Water

6 Conclusion

15. Urban Science in 18th-Century Mexico City

1 Venus, the Sun, and Mexico City

2 Natural Order, Urban Order

3 Science in the Streets

4 Urban Expertise

5 Conclusions

16. A Culture of Print in Viceregal Mexico City

17. Novohispanic Baroque Poetry

18. Music and Literature in New Spain

2 Buen Gusto

3 Buen Gusto, the Noble Arts, and the Quest for Social Status

Primary Sources.

Secondary Literature

19. The Royal Academy of San Carlos, 1781-1800

1 Founding the Royal Academy of San Carlos

2 An Institution of the Bourbon Reforms

3 Arrival of Gerónimo Antonio Gil

4 The Royal Academy of San Carlos

5 Teaching Neo-Classicism: Discourse, Text, and Objects

5.1 Discourse

5.2 Text

5.3 Objects

6 Experiencing Fine Art and Bourbon Imperialism

7 Students

8 Administrators and Faculty

9 Power and Presence

10 The Equestrian Monument of Charles IV

11 Conclusion

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-33557-9

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004335578 DOI