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Building colonial cities of God : mendicant orders and urban culture in New Spain
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- Creator
- Karen Melvin
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2012]
- ©2012
- Physical Details
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- xiii, 365 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780804783255, 0804774862, 9780804774864, 080478325X
- OCLC
- ocn702647708, on1178768948, ocn767502827
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Ordering cities : urban convents and friars, 1570-1810 -- Distinguishing habits : corporate and collective mendicant identities -- Serving cities : orders and their urban ministries -- Defining religions : mendicant connections and disconnections in urban society -- Loving complaints : orders and the formation of local religious culture
Subjects
- Catholic Church -- Mexico -- History -- 17th century.
- Catholic Church -- Mexico -- History -- 18th century.
- Friars -- Mexico -- History -- 17th century.
- Friars -- Mexico -- History -- 18th century.
- Colonial cities -- Mexico -- History -- 17th century.
- Colonial cities -- Mexico -- History -- 18th century.
- Mexico -- Church history -- 17th century.
- Mexico -- Church history -- 18th century.
- Mexico -- History -- Spanish colony, 1540-1810.
- Spain -- Colonies -- America -- Religious life and customs.