Stafford Poole
Biographic Data
| ID | 444895 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stafford Poole |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stafford |
| FAMILY NAME | Poole |
| SIGNATURE | POOLE S |
| AFFILIATIONS | St. Mary's Seminary and University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 65 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1963 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Some Observations on Mission Methods and Native Reactions in Sixteenth-Century New Spain
In this chapter, the author examines some aspects of the evangelization of New Spain in the sixteenth century and the natives' responses to it. In his pioneering work The Spiritual Conquest of Mexico, Robert Ricard described the various methods used by the missionary friars to evangelize the Indians. The author aims to make two observations. The first is that syncretism is as old as Christianity itself. The union of Greek philosophy and Christian…
El Yndio Mas Venturoso’: A Spanish Guadalupan Drama of the Early Nineteenth Century
The Catholic missionaries who first brought Christianity to New Spain (colonial Mexico) were often very creative and innovative in their teaching methods. They used various audiovisual devices and, often without realizing it, built on preconquest and pre-Christian concepts, a form of unconscious syncretism. It is widely accepted that the missionary enterprise began in 1524 with the arrival of “The Twelve,” the first Franciscan missionaries. Their…
A Response to Timothy Matovina
According to a widely accepted tradition, the Virgin Mary appeared in December 1531 to an indigenous neophyte named Juan Diego on a hill outside of Mexico City. The devotion to the Virgin under the title of Our Lady of Guadalupe is one of history’s outstanding examples of the union of religious devotion and nationalism. Beginning in the late-eighteenth century, however, there has been a controversy over the historical truth of the tradition. In a…
Religion in New Spain
Journal Article Religion in New Spain Get access Religion in New Spain. Edited by Schroeder Susan Poole Stafford. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2007. ix + 358 pp. Illustrations, map, tables, index. $39.95.) Jerry Garcia Jerry Garcia Michigan State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 39, Issue 4, Winter 2008, Pages 515–516, https://doi.org/10.2307/…
Mesoamerican Voices: Native-Language Writings from Colonial Mexico, Oaxaca, Yucatan, and Guatemala
One of the most important developments in Mexican colonial history over the past few decades has been the growing use of native-language sources. Until then, most of that history was dependent on texts in Spanish written from the conquerors’ point of view. Even such magisterial and important works as Charles Gibson’s The Aztecs under Spanish Rule (Stanford, 1964) and Robert Ricard’s The Spiritual Conquest of Mexico (Paris, 1933; Berkeley, 1966) r…
History versus Juan Diego
On April 12 1939, from his place of exile in San Antonio, Texas, José de Jesús Manríquez y Zárate, first bishop of Huejutla, Mexico, wrote a pastoral letter to his priests and people, exhorting them to work for the cause of Juan Diego’s beatification. This was the first effective step in the process of canonizing the indigenous peasant who in 1531 is said to have experienced the apparitions of Our Lady of Guadalupe. The story of these apparitions…
Topiltzin Quetzalcoatl: The Once and Future Lord of the Toltecs
Book Review| October 01 2003 Topiltzin Quetzalcoatl: The Once and Future Lord of the Toltecs By H. B. Nicholson. (Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2001. 380 pages, prologue, maps, illustrations. $65.00 hardcover. $27.95 paperback.) Stafford Poole Stafford Poole independent scholar Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2003) 50 (4): 739–740. https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-50-4-739 Cite Icon Cite Share Ico…
El águila y la cruz: Orígenes religiosos de la conciencia criolla, México, siglos XVI-XVII
The growth of creole identity in New Spain is one of the most important questions of the colonial period. When and how did criollos come to define themselves as such? North American historians have tended to deal with the issue in terms of social and economic forces. Solange Alberro seeks to explain it as a religious phenomenon closely connected with the development of a distinctively Mexican form of syncretistic religion.She divides this growth …
The Politics of Limpieza de Sangre: Juan de Ovando and his Circle in the Reign of Philip II
In 1575 Juan de Ovando, the president of the Council of the Indies, wrote to Mateo Vázquez de Lecca, Philip II's secretary, about the maestrescuelas (headmaster of the cathedral school) of Mexico City who was under consideration for a position as chaplain to the king. The Council of the Indies believed that he lacked the proper limpieza de sangre , that is, that he may have had a tainted lineage that disqualified him for the post. Ovando declared…
The Story of Guadalupe: Luis Laso de la Vega’s Huei tlamahuiçoltica of 1649
The devotion to Our Lady of Guadalupe is one of the most important elements in the development of a specifically Mexican tradition of religion and nationality over the centuries. The picture of the Virgen morena (Dark Virgin) is to be found everywhere throughout Mexico, and her iconography is varied almost beyond telling. Though innumerable books, both historical and devotional, have been published on the Guadalupan legend in this century alone, …
Our Lady of Guadalupe: The Origins and Sources of a Mexican National Symbol, 1531-1797
Our Lady of Guadalupe: The Origins and Sources of a Mexican National Symbol, 1531-1797
Our Lady of Guadalupe: The Origins and Sources of a Mexican National Symbol, 1531-1797
Journal Article Our Lady of Guadalupe: The Origins and Sources of a Mexican National Symbol, 1531–1797 Get access Our Lady of Guadalupe: The Origins and Sources of a Mexican National Symbol, 1531–1797. By Poole Stafford, C. M. (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1995. xi + 325 pp. Illustration, notes, bibliography, index. $40.00.) Elizabeth Salas Elizabeth Salas University of Washington Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic …
Our Lady of Guadalupe: The Origins and Sources of a Mexican National Symbol, 1531-1797
Don Vasco de Quiroga (Protector de los Indios)
Some Observations on Mission Methods and Native Reactions in Sixteenth-Century New Spain
The purpose of this article is to examine some aspects of the evangelization of New Spain in the sixteenth century and the natives’ responses to it. This is a subject of tortuous complexity and one that cannot be adequately treated in a brief essay. Rather, this will be an attempt to highlight some of the more important and interesting aspects of this phenomenon. In doing so I will use some of my own researches into the Virgin of Guadalupe of Mex…
Christianity Comes to the Americas, 1492-1776
Journal Article Christianity Comes to the Americas, 1492–1776. By Charles H. Lippy, Robert Choquette, and Stafford Poole. (New York: Paragon, 1992. xii + 400 pp. Cloth, $29.95, ISBN 1-55778-234-2. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 1-55778-501-5.) Get access Jon Butler Jon Butler Yale University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 4, March 1993, Pages 1573–1574, https://doi.org/1…
Juan de Ovando's Reform of the University of Alcala de Henares, 1564-1566
The Last Years of Archbishop Pedro Moya de Contreras, 1586-1591
Any historian who sets out to write a book faces two dangers. The one might be called the “one more document syndrome,” the obsession with research that is so exhaustive that nothing further can be found. The other is the prospect of publishing a work, only to have further documentation come to light that was lacking in his original research or alters his conclusions. Perhaps the latter is the lesser danger because it at least permits part of the…
Entre dos majestades: El obispo y la iglesia del Gran Michoacán ante las reformas borbónicas, 1758-1772
Pedro Moya de Contreras: Catholic Reform and Royal Power in New Spain, 1571-1591
La herencia medieval de Mexico
El catecismo del III Concilio Provincial de Lima y sus complementos pastorales (1584-1585). Estudio preliminar-Textos-Notas
El catecismo del III Concilio Provincial de Lima y sus complementos pastorales (1584-1585). Estudio preliminar—Textos—Notas
Organización de la iglesia en el Reino de Granada y su proyección en Indias. Siglo xvi
Pedro Moya de Contreras: Catholic Reform and Royal Power in New Spain, 1571-1591
Religion in New Spain
Journal Article Religion in New Spain Get access Religion in New Spain. Edited by Schroeder Susan Poole Stafford. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2007. ix + 358 pp. Illustrations, map, tables, index. $39.95.) Jerry Garcia Jerry Garcia Michigan State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 39, Issue 4, Winter 2008, Pages 515–516, https://doi.org/10.2307/…
The Story of Guadalupe: Luis Laso de la Vega’s Huei tlamahuiçoltica of 1649
The devotion to Our Lady of Guadalupe is one of the most important elements in the development of a specifically Mexican tradition of religion and nationality over the centuries. The picture of the Virgen morena (Dark Virgin) is to be found everywhere throughout Mexico, and her iconography is varied almost beyond telling. Though innumerable books, both historical and devotional, have been published on the Guadalupan legend in this century alone, …
War by Fire and Blood ” The Church and the Chichimecas 1585
“The Justice of warring against the notorious Chichimeca Indians of Mexico was a burning issue throughout the sixteenth century.” This simple statement covers more than half a century of theological, canonical, legal, and philosophical debate over whether or not the Spanish government was justified in waging total war a fuego y a sangre against the wild Indian tribes to the north of the capital. Should these Indians continue to be regarded, as th…
The Church and the Repartimientos in the Light of the Third Mexican Council, 1585
If, as has been asserted, the Mexican Indian owes his daily wage to the Third Mexican Council, then the attitude of that Council toward the question of Indian labor must be of surpassing importance for Mexican history. The transition of the Indian from an economy in which the wage system was unknow to a totally European system was the aim of the Spanish crown, despite such aberrations as the encomienda and the repartimiento . Any influence exerci…
The Politics of Limpieza de Sangre: Juan de Ovando and his Circle in the Reign of Philip II
In 1575 Juan de Ovando, the president of the Council of the Indies, wrote to Mateo Vázquez de Lecca, Philip II's secretary, about the maestrescuelas (headmaster of the cathedral school) of Mexico City who was under consideration for a position as chaplain to the king. The Council of the Indies believed that he lacked the proper limpieza de sangre , that is, that he may have had a tainted lineage that disqualified him for the post. Ovando declared…
Church Law on the Ordination of Indians and Castas in New Spain
ONE of the most pressing questions that faced the Roman Catholic Church in colonial Mexico was that of a native clergy. In an effort to resolve it, both Church and state groped toward a policy that would reconcile the conflicting demands of Christian idealism and social reality. Eventually an accommodation was reached, but the process that led to it was remarkably complex. The confusion and difficulties that surrounded the issue can be seen most …
History versus Juan Diego
On April 12 1939, from his place of exile in San Antonio, Texas, José de Jesús Manríquez y Zárate, first bishop of Huejutla, Mexico, wrote a pastoral letter to his priests and people, exhorting them to work for the cause of Juan Diego’s beatification. This was the first effective step in the process of canonizing the indigenous peasant who in 1531 is said to have experienced the apparitions of Our Lady of Guadalupe. The story of these apparitions…
Some Observations on Mission Methods and Native Reactions in Sixteenth-Century New Spain
The purpose of this article is to examine some aspects of the evangelization of New Spain in the sixteenth century and the natives’ responses to it. This is a subject of tortuous complexity and one that cannot be adequately treated in a brief essay. Rather, this will be an attempt to highlight some of the more important and interesting aspects of this phenomenon. In doing so I will use some of my own researches into the Virgin of Guadalupe of Mex…
The Last Years of Archbishop Pedro Moya de Contreras, 1586-1591
Any historian who sets out to write a book faces two dangers. The one might be called the “one more document syndrome,” the obsession with research that is so exhaustive that nothing further can be found. The other is the prospect of publishing a work, only to have further documentation come to light that was lacking in his original research or alters his conclusions. Perhaps the latter is the lesser danger because it at least permits part of the…
Opposition to the Third Mexican Council
The study of the opposition to the Third Mexican Council of 1585 provides a fascinating picture, not only of the determined efforts to undo the work of the most important ecclesiastical meeting of colonial New Spain but also of the various hostilities and animosities, intrigues and rivalries, that were at work in New Spain toward the end of the sixteenth century In the Third Council, the bickering of secular and religious priests, the opposition …
El Yndio Mas Venturoso’: A Spanish Guadalupan Drama of the Early Nineteenth Century
The Catholic missionaries who first brought Christianity to New Spain (colonial Mexico) were often very creative and innovative in their teaching methods. They used various audiovisual devices and, often without realizing it, built on preconquest and pre-Christian concepts, a form of unconscious syncretism. It is widely accepted that the missionary enterprise began in 1524 with the arrival of “The Twelve,” the first Franciscan missionaries. Their…
The Church and the Repartimientos in the Light of the Third Mexican Council, 1585
If, as has been asserted, the Mexican Indian owes his daily wage to the Third Mexican Council, then the attitude of that Council toward the question of Indian labor must be of surpassing importance for Mexican history. The transition of the Indian from an economy in which the wage system was unknow to a totally European system was the aim of the Spanish crown, despite such aberrations as the encomienda and the repartimiento . Any influence exerci…
War by Fire and Blood ” The Church and the Chichimecas 1585
“The Justice of warring against the notorious Chichimeca Indians of Mexico was a burning issue throughout the sixteenth century.” This simple statement covers more than half a century of theological, canonical, legal, and philosophical debate over whether or not the Spanish government was justified in waging total war a fuego y a sangre against the wild Indian tribes to the north of the capital. Should these Indians continue to be regarded, as th…
Opposition to the Third Mexican Council
The study of the opposition to the Third Mexican Council of 1585 provides a fascinating picture, not only of the determined efforts to undo the work of the most important ecclesiastical meeting of colonial New Spain but also of the various hostilities and animosities, intrigues and rivalries, that were at work in New Spain toward the end of the sixteenth century In the Third Council, the bickering of secular and religious priests, the opposition …
The Mexican Revolution and the Catholic Church, 1910-1929
In Defense of the Indians: The Defense of the Most Reverend Lord, Don Fray Bartolome de Las Casas, of the Order of Preachers, Late Bishop of Chiapa, Against the Persecutors and Slanderers of the Peopl…
In Defense of the Indians: The Defense of the Most Reverend Lord, Don Fray Bartolome de Las Casas, of the Order of Preachers, Late Bishop of Chiapa, against the Persecutors and Slanderers of the Peopl…
Institutionalized Corruption in the Letrado Bureaucracy. The Case of Pedro Farfán (1568-1588)
The growth of the Spanish Empire and its governmental machinery in the sixteenth century created a demand for letrados , a uniquely Spanish form of civil servant. They were men who came mostly from the impoverished lower nobility and who were trained in law as preparation for serving in the burgeoning bureaucracy. Law, whether canon or civil, offered a young man in sixteenth century Spain entry into well-paying, secure and prestigious jobs in chu…
Church Law on the Ordination of Indians and Castas in New Spain
ONE of the most pressing questions that faced the Roman Catholic Church in colonial Mexico was that of a native clergy. In an effort to resolve it, both Church and state groped toward a policy that would reconcile the conflicting demands of Christian idealism and social reality. Eventually an accommodation was reached, but the process that led to it was remarkably complex. The confusion and difficulties that surrounded the issue can be seen most …
Organización de la iglesia en el Reino de Granada y su proyección en Indias. Siglo xvi
El catecismo del III Concilio Provincial de Lima y sus complementos pastorales (1584-1585). Estudio preliminar-Textos-Notas
El catecismo del III Concilio Provincial de Lima y sus complementos pastorales (1584-1585). Estudio preliminar—Textos—Notas
La herencia medieval de Mexico
Entre dos majestades: El obispo y la iglesia del Gran Michoacán ante las reformas borbónicas, 1758-1772
Pedro Moya de Contreras: Catholic Reform and Royal Power in New Spain, 1571-1591
Juan de Ovando's Reform of the University of Alcala de Henares, 1564-1566
The Last Years of Archbishop Pedro Moya de Contreras, 1586-1591
Any historian who sets out to write a book faces two dangers. The one might be called the “one more document syndrome,” the obsession with research that is so exhaustive that nothing further can be found. The other is the prospect of publishing a work, only to have further documentation come to light that was lacking in his original research or alters his conclusions. Perhaps the latter is the lesser danger because it at least permits part of the…
Christianity Comes to the Americas, 1492-1776
Journal Article Christianity Comes to the Americas, 1492–1776. By Charles H. Lippy, Robert Choquette, and Stafford Poole. (New York: Paragon, 1992. xii + 400 pp. Cloth, $29.95, ISBN 1-55778-234-2. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 1-55778-501-5.) Get access Jon Butler Jon Butler Yale University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 4, March 1993, Pages 1573–1574, https://doi.org/1…
Some Observations on Mission Methods and Native Reactions in Sixteenth-Century New Spain
The purpose of this article is to examine some aspects of the evangelization of New Spain in the sixteenth century and the natives’ responses to it. This is a subject of tortuous complexity and one that cannot be adequately treated in a brief essay. Rather, this will be an attempt to highlight some of the more important and interesting aspects of this phenomenon. In doing so I will use some of my own researches into the Virgin of Guadalupe of Mex…
Don Vasco de Quiroga (Protector de los Indios)
Our Lady of Guadalupe: The Origins and Sources of a Mexican National Symbol, 1531-1797
Our Lady of Guadalupe: The Origins and Sources of a Mexican National Symbol, 1531-1797
Our Lady of Guadalupe: The Origins and Sources of a Mexican National Symbol, 1531-1797
Journal Article Our Lady of Guadalupe: The Origins and Sources of a Mexican National Symbol, 1531–1797 Get access Our Lady of Guadalupe: The Origins and Sources of a Mexican National Symbol, 1531–1797. By Poole Stafford, C. M. (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1995. xi + 325 pp. Illustration, notes, bibliography, index. $40.00.) Elizabeth Salas Elizabeth Salas University of Washington Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic …
Our Lady of Guadalupe: The Origins and Sources of a Mexican National Symbol, 1531-1797
The Story of Guadalupe: Luis Laso de la Vega’s Huei tlamahuiçoltica of 1649
The devotion to Our Lady of Guadalupe is one of the most important elements in the development of a specifically Mexican tradition of religion and nationality over the centuries. The picture of the Virgen morena (Dark Virgin) is to be found everywhere throughout Mexico, and her iconography is varied almost beyond telling. Though innumerable books, both historical and devotional, have been published on the Guadalupan legend in this century alone, …
The Politics of Limpieza de Sangre: Juan de Ovando and his Circle in the Reign of Philip II
In 1575 Juan de Ovando, the president of the Council of the Indies, wrote to Mateo Vázquez de Lecca, Philip II's secretary, about the maestrescuelas (headmaster of the cathedral school) of Mexico City who was under consideration for a position as chaplain to the king. The Council of the Indies believed that he lacked the proper limpieza de sangre , that is, that he may have had a tainted lineage that disqualified him for the post. Ovando declared…
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