On the Wings of Time

Rome, the Incas, Spain, and Peru

Datos Bibliográficos

ID19135028
AutoresSabine Maccormack (autor de correspondencia)
Año2006
Páginas352
Fecha de publicación2006-12-31
Open AccessSí
TipoBOOK
RevistaOn the Wings of Time (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditorialPrinceton University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1515/9781400832675
OpenAlexW3023854636
Open LibraryOL34163458M
ISBN9781400832675
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas13

Historians have long recognized that the classical heritage of ancient Rome contributed to the development of a vibrant society in Spanish South America, but was the impact a one-way street? Although the Spanish destruction of the Incan empire changed the Andes forever, the civil society that did emerge was not the result of Andeans and Creoles passively absorbing the wisdom of ancient Rome. Rather, Sabine MacCormack proposes that civil society was born of the intellectual endeavors that commenced with the invasion itself, as the invaders sought to understand an array of cultures. Looking at the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century people who wrote about the Andean region that became Peru, MacCormack reveals how the lens of Rome had a profound influence on Spanish understanding of the Incan empire. Tracing the varied events that shaped Peru as a country, MacCormack shows how Roman and classical literature provided a framework for the construal of historical experience. She turns to issues vital to Latin American history, such as the role of language in conquest, the interpretation of civil war, and the founding of cities, to paint a dynamic picture of the genesis of renewed political life in the Andean region. Examining how missionaries, soldiers, native lords, and other writers employed classical concepts to forge new understandings of Peruvian society and history, the book offers a complete reassessment of the ways in which colonial Peru made the classical heritage uniquely its own

Geography · Computer Science · Cultural and Social Studies in Latin America · Early Modern Women Writers · Latin American history and culture · Politics and Society in Latin America · Andes Region · Conquest, 1522-1548 · First contact with Europeans · Historiography · History · History and criticism · Incas · Incas in literature · Indian literature · Peru · Spanish literature