Sabine Maccormack

Broschiertes Buch

Religion in the Andes

Vision and Imagination in Early Colonial Peru

Beschreibung

Addressing problems of objectivity and authenticity, Sabine MacCormack reconstructs how Andean religion was understood by the Spanish in light of seventeenth-century European theological and philosophical movements, and by Andean writers trying to find in it antecedents to their new Christian faith.

Autor

Sabine MacCormack is Alice Freeman Palmer Professor of History and Professor of Classics at the University of Michigan. She is author of Art and Ceremony in Late Antiquity (California).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Seitenzahl: 508
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Juni 1993
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 817g
• ISBN-13: 9780691021065
• ISBN-10: 0691021066
• Artikelnr.: 22454536

Rezensionen

This volume provides a salutary reminder that the "New World' was not only encountered and conquered, but also explained, and explained in a way which revealed much about Europe.