Asuncion Lavrin
Biographic Data
| ID | 400644 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Asuncion Lavrin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Asuncion |
| FAMILY NAME | Lavrin |
| SIGNATURE | LAVRIN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Howard University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 71 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 123 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 71 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1965 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
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Un intento de autobiografía: La aspiración truncada de la madre María Ignacia del Niño Jesús
A comienzos del siglo XIX, una religiosa profesa en el convento de Santa Clara de Querétaro intenta escribir su autobiografía. Este poco conocido documento, en el cual la monja sólo llegó a narrar su vida hasta los siete años, ofrece información sobre la vida cotidiana en un hogar provinciano, donde vivía adoptada por una familia indígena. De igual importancia es el intento de la religiosa de reconstruir su niñez como predestinada a una vida espi…
Santa Teresa en los conventos de monjas de Nueva España
El trasplante de la espiritualidad teresiana a Nueva España fue una experiencia que puso a prueba la capacidad de adaptar su mensaje reformista a las circunstancias de nuevas sociedades en formación en el imperio español. Con sólo siete conventos femeninos en el nuevo virreinato, la Orden logró seguir los preceptos esenciales de Santa Teresa aunque matizados por una religiosidad barroca que insistía en mortificaciones espirituales y corporales, c…
Lay Brothers: The Other Men in the Mendicant Orders of New Spain
In 1556 Franciscan missionaries from the city of Mexico arrived in the then remote area of Zacatecas to begin what was expected to be a crucial but difficult evangelization of the area. They had been preceded by several other brothers who had not settled there despite having spent several years in catechizing the indigenous. The intention of these four missionaries was to stay and found a convent. Along with Fr. Pedro de Espinareda and Fr. Diego …
Marvels and Miracles in Late Colonial Mexico: Three Texts in ContextShrines and Miraculous Images: Religious Life in Mexico Before the Reforma
Historians of colonial Latin America have neglected the topic of faith and religious expressions for a long time. Ecclesiastical history has mostly focused on themes of conversion, evangelization, and resistance to both, or the foundation, development, and socioeconomic aspects of religious institutions. The Inquisition archives have been mined for social and cultural studies. Yet, the question of how to study and interpret miracles, shrines, hag…
Indoctrination, Conversion, and Belief in the Colonial Iberian World
Indoctrination, Conversion, and Belief in the Colonial Iberian World Asunción Lavrin (bio) Expecting Pears from an Elm Tree: Franciscan Missions on the Chiriguano Frontier in the Heart of South America, 1830–1949. By Erick D. Langer. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2009. Pp. xiiii + 375. $24.95 paper. $89.95 cloth. Bonfires of Culture: Franciscans, Indigenous Leaders, and Inquisition in Early Mexico, 1524–1540. By Patricia Lopes Don. Norman: U…
La escritura desde un mundo oculto: Espiritualidad y anonimidad en el convento de San Juan de la Penitencia
La espiritualidad femenina novohispana necesita ser mejor explorada y para este propósito los escritos de las monjas, que han permanecido ignorados e inéditos, son un medio privilegiado. En este trabajo se analizan algunos elementos de esos escritos, utilizando las entregas mensuales de una monja del convento de San Juan de la Penitencia a su confesor (1758). Este artículo examina el paisaje interior del alma, la relación de la religiosa como suj…
Awards, Fellowships & Prizes
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CLAH Luncheon Address: Recuerdos/Remembrances
There is a special relationship between historians and remembering as an act of the will. Forgetting is not what we are supposed to do or want to do. As people, historians love to remember and act deliberately to achieve the reconstruction of the past, which is itself the product of as many forms of remembrance and memory-keeping as there are people who want to remember—about themselves, their actions, their sentiments, and their understanding of…
Woman and Art in Early Modern Latin America
For students of colonial art and women’s history this book is a godsend. It proves how an interdisciplinary and feminist approach to history can enrich our understanding of the connections that people made, the role that women played, and the meaning of gender in cultures of the past. Twenty-five years of intensive study of women and gender history in Latin America have barely scratched the surface of the wealth of information available in the vi…
Entre la familia, la sociedad y el Estado: Niños y jóvenes en América latina (siglos XIX-XX)
This 13-essay collection on childhood in Latin American history proposes to develop two themes that have received scant attention in recent historiography: childhood and youth. The editors make clear that these two cycles in human life are not necessarily similar in either their nature or their treatment. While childhood evokes innocence, youth (after age 12) evokes rebellion and transgression. Each phase was dealt with differently by the Latin A…
Spanish American Women, 1790–1850: The Challenge of Remembering
This article will survey the contribution made by the most recent historiography on Spanish American women in the period 1790 to 1850 and, in the light of this, examine two works written by women in the 1840s that represent self-perception and the social expectations of women in that decade. These are the diaries written by María Martínez de Nisser, from what today is Colombia, and Agustina Palacio de Libarona, from Argentina. These texts provide…
Mujeres, género e historia en América Central durante los siglos XVIII, XIX y XX
Eugenia Rodríguez, who has distinguished herself in the last decade as a historian of women in Central America, here gathers a selection of works focusing on gender and history presented at the fifth Central American History Congress (2000). The 14 essays are divided in two sections—1750–1950 and 1950–2000—followed by a conclusion in which Rodríguez assesses the progress of women’s history in Central America since 1957. This fine historical contr…
Indian Brides of Christ: Creating New Spaces for Indigenous Women in New Spain
Este artículo analiza la interrelación de los factores de clase, género y raza en la definición de una política de admisión de mujeres indígenas a las órdenes religiosas de la Nueva España. El argumento teológico que permitiría ubicarlas dentro de los parámetros de espiritualidad de la época maduró en el siglo dieciocho. Clase y raza, usadas previamente para excluirlas, fueron utilizadas por sus promotores para su reivindicación y aceptación, a p…
International Feminisms: Latin American Alternatives
Women, Feminism, and Social Change in Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay, 1890- 1940.
Women, Feminism, and Social Change in Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay, 1890-1940
Women, Feminism, and Social Change in Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay, 1890-1940
The publication of this book marks a watershed for American studies. - Net Book Review. The combination of an analysis of institutional and legislative reforms with their importance for individuals' lives makes this book requisite and exciting reading for the social and gender history of America, as well as a significant comparative study for scholars of the United States and Europe. - The Americas. There is assuredly much for northern feminists …
A Kingdom of this world: Religion, politics, power, and the Church in Spanish America
Church and State in Bourbon Mexico: The Diocese of Michoacán, 1749–1810. By D. A. BRADING. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Pp. 300. Ideología y sociedad en Guadalajara (1788–1853). By BRIAN CONNAUGHTON. Mexico: UNAM‐CONACU, 1992. La venida del reino. Religión, evangelización y cultura en América. Siglos XVI‐XX. Compiled by GABRIELA RAMOS. Cuzco: Centro de Estudios Regionales Andinos “Bartolomé de las Casas”, 1994. Autobiografía de un…
The Cambridge History of Latin America
The second part of Volume 6 of The Cambridge History of Latin America examines the military in Latin American politics; democracy; the Left; labour movements and the urban working class; rural mobilisation and violence. It also takes a look at the role of women in twentieth-century Latin American economy, society, and politics. The volume finishes with a discussion of the actions and importance of the Catholic and Protestant churches
Espiritualidad en el claustro novohispano del siglo XVII
(1995). Espiritualidad en el claustro novohispano del siglo XVII. Colonial Latin American Review: Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 155-180
Latin American Women and the Search for Social Justice
A clear and detailed study of Latin American women s history from the late nineteenth century to the present
La vida femenina como experiencia religiosa: Biografía y hagiografía en hispanoamerica colonial
Love Customs in Eighteenth-Century Spain
Good Faith and Truthful Ignorance: A Case of Transatlantic Bigamy
Emigrants and Society: Extremadura and America in the Sixteenth Century
The opening of the New World to Spanish settlement had more than the limited impact on individuals and society which scholars have traditionally granted it. Many families and young single people left the neighboring cities of Caceres and Trujillo in the Extremadura region of southwestern Spain for the Indies. By maintaining ties with home and one another, and sometimes returning, these emigrants developed patterns of involvement that on one level…
Daughters of the Conquistadores: Women of the Viceroyalty of Peru
The Role of the Nunneries in the Economy of New Spain in the Eighteenth Century
rF E CATHOLIC CHURCH occupied a preeminent position in the economy of colonial New Spain. It owned a substantial share of the land of the country and had large amounts of capital invested in agricultural enterprises or in loans to landowners and businessmen. Toward the end of the eighteenth century the secular branch of the Church possessed the greater portion of its riches, but according to Humboldt the monastic orders still had considerable wea…
Dowries and Wills: A View of Women's Socioeconomic Role in Colonial Guadalajara and Puebla, 1640-1790
Edith Couturier, Dowries and Wills: A View of Women's Socioeconomic Role in Colonial Guadalajara and Puebla, 1640-1790, The Hispanic American Historical Review, Vol. 59, No. 2 (May, 1979), pp. 280-304
La vida femenina como experiencia religiosa: Biografía y hagiografía en hispanoamerica colonial
Sexuality and Marriage in Colonial Latin America
Ecclesiastical Reform of Nunneries in New Spain in the Eighteenth Century
During the second half of the seventeenth century and the early years of the eighteenth century relaxation of the morals of religious orders, especially the masculine ones, and of the priesthood was notable in Spain and her American dominions. That this situation also existed in New Spain was reported in detail by several contemporary Viceroys in the Instrucciones to their successors. This relaxation also extended to feminine orders, though in th…
Espiritualidad en el claustro novohispano del siglo XVII
(1995). Espiritualidad en el claustro novohispano del siglo XVII. Colonial Latin American Review: Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 155-180
El Capital Eclesiástico y Las Elites Sociales en Nueva España a Fines del Siglo XVIII
This work underlines the close association of interests between the ecclesiastical sources of credit and the social elite of the Archbishopric of Mexico. Although the availability of credit was not restricted to the top members of the socio-economic hierarchy, the wealthiest money-lending religious institutions showed a marked preference for that group. Large merchants, choice members of the local and viceregal bureaucracy, and considerable range…
The Execution of the Law of Consolidación in New Spain: Economic Aims and Results
WL THEN THE Ley de Consolidacio'n de Vales Reales was published in New Spain in 1805, it provoked consternation and fear among thousands of property owners. A note handwritten at the margin of a copy of the law by some irate person expressed the feelings stirred in many: Toda esta trapala del malvado Godoy, Soler y sus secuaces . . .I The private reaction of the clerical corporations, the direct target of thie law of Consolidaci6n, is not known t…
Indian Brides of Christ: Creating New Spaces for Indigenous Women in New Spain
Este artículo analiza la interrelación de los factores de clase, género y raza en la definición de una política de admisión de mujeres indígenas a las órdenes religiosas de la Nueva España. El argumento teológico que permitiría ubicarlas dentro de los parámetros de espiritualidad de la época maduró en el siglo dieciocho. Clase y raza, usadas previamente para excluirlas, fueron utilizadas por sus promotores para su reivindicación y aceptación, a p…
International Feminisms: Latin American Alternatives
Guadalajara ganadera: Estudio regional novohispano, 1760-1805
Problems and Policies in the Administration of Nunneries in Mexico, 1800–1835
At the end of the eighteenth century, the economic position of the church in New Spain appeared to be secure and prosperous. Although the crown had restricted many of the financial and legal prerogatives of the church in the second half of this century, it had not restricted the basic right of the church to hold property or invest its money in mortgages or loans to lay citizens or to the government. On the contrary, in order to solve its own fina…
Let Me Speak! Testimony of Domitila, A Woman of the Bolivian Mines
Mexican Nunneries from 1835 to 1860: Their Administrative Policies and Relations with the State
As it has been suggested in a previous article, by the middle of the 1830's, the Mexican government had started to put into effect a policy of stricter control over the sources of income of the Church and, at the same time, it had started to tap clerical resources with demands for loans, both forced and voluntary. In addition, Liberal politicians had put forward plans to restrict the political and economic power of the Church, not to mention its …
Santa Teresa en los conventos de monjas de Nueva España
El trasplante de la espiritualidad teresiana a Nueva España fue una experiencia que puso a prueba la capacidad de adaptar su mensaje reformista a las circunstancias de nuevas sociedades en formación en el imperio español. Con sólo siete conventos femeninos en el nuevo virreinato, la Orden logró seguir los preceptos esenciales de Santa Teresa aunque matizados por una religiosidad barroca que insistía en mortificaciones espirituales y corporales, c…
Lay Brothers: The Other Men in the Mendicant Orders of New Spain
In 1556 Franciscan missionaries from the city of Mexico arrived in the then remote area of Zacatecas to begin what was expected to be a crucial but difficult evangelization of the area. They had been preceded by several other brothers who had not settled there despite having spent several years in catechizing the indigenous. The intention of these four missionaries was to stay and found a convent. Along with Fr. Pedro de Espinareda and Fr. Diego …
Recent Studies on Women in Latin America
The field of Latin American women's studies continues to develop at a steady pace. While its growth has not been as vigorous as that of women's studies in other areas, it has already gained enough momentum to ensure a fruitful ongoing examination of the past and present roles of
Latin American Women's History
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Women in Spanish America: An Annotated Bibliography from Pre-Conquest to Contemporary Times
Ecclesiastical Reform of Nunneries in New Spain in the Eighteenth Century
During the second half of the seventeenth century and the early years of the eighteenth century relaxation of the morals of religious orders, especially the masculine ones, and of the priesthood was notable in Spain and her American dominions. That this situation also existed in New Spain was reported in detail by several contemporary Viceroys in the Instrucciones to their successors. This relaxation also extended to feminine orders, though in th…
The Role of the Nunneries in the Economy of New Spain in the Eighteenth Century
rF E CATHOLIC CHURCH occupied a preeminent position in the economy of colonial New Spain. It owned a substantial share of the land of the country and had large amounts of capital invested in agricultural enterprises or in loans to landowners and businessmen. Toward the end of the eighteenth century the secular branch of the Church possessed the greater portion of its riches, but according to Humboldt the monastic orders still had considerable wea…
Los Carmelitas Descalzos y la conquista espiritual de México, 1585-1612
El Episcopado Hispanoamericano. Institución misionera en defensa del indio (1504-1620)
El Episcopado Hispanoamericano. Institucion misionera en defensa del indio (1504-1620)
Problems and Policies in the Administration of Nunneries in Mexico, 1800–1835
At the end of the eighteenth century, the economic position of the church in New Spain appeared to be secure and prosperous. Although the crown had restricted many of the financial and legal prerogatives of the church in the second half of this century, it had not restricted the basic right of the church to hold property or invest its money in mortgages or loans to lay citizens or to the government. On the contrary, in order to solve its own fina…
Mexican Nunneries from 1835 to 1860: Their Administrative Policies and Relations with the State
As it has been suggested in a previous article, by the middle of the 1830's, the Mexican government had started to put into effect a policy of stricter control over the sources of income of the Church and, at the same time, it had started to tap clerical resources with demands for loans, both forced and voluntary. In addition, Liberal politicians had put forward plans to restrict the political and economic power of the Church, not to mention its …
The Execution of the Law of Consolidación in New Spain: Economic Aims and Results
WL THEN THE Ley de Consolidacio'n de Vales Reales was published in New Spain in 1805, it provoked consternation and fear among thousands of property owners. A note handwritten at the margin of a copy of the law by some irate person expressed the feelings stirred in many: Toda esta trapala del malvado Godoy, Soler y sus secuaces . . .I The private reaction of the clerical corporations, the direct target of thie law of Consolidaci6n, is not known t…
New Spain: The Birth of Modern Mexico
Women in Latin American History: Their Lives and Views . June E. Hahner
La mujer mexicana ante el divorcio eclesiástico: 1800-1857
Los recogimientos de mujeres: Respuesta a una problemática social novohispana
Women in Spanish America: An Annotated Bibliography from Pre-Conquest to Contemporary Times
Latin American Women's History
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Ten Notable Women of Latin America
Ten Notable Women of Latin America
Dowries and Wills: A View of Women's Socioeconomic Role in Colonial Guadalajara and Puebla, 1640-1790
Edith Couturier, Dowries and Wills: A View of Women's Socioeconomic Role in Colonial Guadalajara and Puebla, 1640-1790, The Hispanic American Historical Review, Vol. 59, No. 2 (May, 1979), pp. 280-304
Guadalajara ganadera: Estudio regional novohispano, 1760-1805
Let Me Speak! Testimony of Domitila, A Woman of the Bolivian Mines
Latin American Women: Historical Perspectives
Let Me Speak! Testimony of Domitila, A Woman of the Bolivian Mines: Depoimento De Uma Mineira Boliviana
This article is a review of the book "Let Me Speak! Testimony of Domitila, A Woman of the Bolivian Mines" by Domitila Barrios de Chungara with Moema Viezzer. The book tells the story of Domitila, a Bolivian miner's wife, and her involvement in the struggles of the miners against oppressive working conditions and political repression. The review highlights the book's significance as a powerful first-person account of a working-class woman's experi…
La mujer cubana en el quehacer de la historia
La mujer cubana en el quehacer de la historia
Eva Perón: The Myths of a Woman
Eva Peron , one of the most powerful women in the world at the time of her death in 1952, rose from humble origins to international renown as First Lady of Argentina and the force behind her husband, Juan Peron. Despite her popularity she was inaccessible to the people of Argentina, and so images were constructed around her to fill that void. According to J.M. Taylor, these around Eva Peron reflect Argentine culture and political history at the t…
La revolución pedagógica en Nueva España (1754-1820): María Ignacia de Azlor y Echevers y los colegios de la enseñanza
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