Martin Austin Nesvig
Biographic Data
| ID | 517557 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Martin Austin Nesvig |
| GIVEN NAMES | Martin Austin |
| FAMILY NAME | Nesvig |
| SIGNATURE | NESVIG M A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Yale University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Women Who Threw Corn
This book tells the stories of women from Spain, North Africa, Senegambia, and Canaries accused of sorcery in sixteenth-century Mexico for adapting native magic and healing practices. These non-native women – the mulata of Seville who cured the evil eye; the Canarian daughter of a Count who ate peyote and mixed her bath water into a man's mustard supply; the wife of a Spanish conquistador who let her hair loose and chanted to a Mesoamerican god w…
San Diego de Pamatácuaro
Promiscuous Power
The Americas in the Modern Age
In this wide-ranging book, historian Lester D. Langley offers a fresh interpretation of the history of the modern Western hemisphere since the mid-nineteenth century. He evaluates the dynamics of hemispheric history, commencing with the articulation of the “two Americas” (Theodore Roosevelt’s America and the contrasting America described by Cuban revolutionary, essayist, and poet José Martí) and culminating with recent controversial efforts to fo…
The Epistemological Politics of Vernacular Scripture in Sixteenth-Century Mexico
The year 1577 was a watershed for linguistic politics in Mexico. After more than five decades in Mexico, the Spanish crown signaled a break from its previous tolerance of the use of indigenous language in catechesis and doctrinal publications. The landmark case is the crown's confiscation of Bernardino de Sahagún's Historia General in 1577. Simultaneously, the Mexican Inquisition pursued an assault on vernacular Scripture, confiscating dozens of …
Religious Chicanery in Michoacán's Emergent Church
Much of the literature on missionaries, evangelization, and conversion efforts in colonial Spanish America focuses on Spanish attempts to make good Catholics out of Indians and on Indian society wi
Colonial Latin America
In 1968 José Costa Pôrto completed Nos tempos do Visitador , an important social history of the earliest permanent Portuguese colony in Brazil in Pernambuco and Bahia, analyzing a broad range of political, cultural, religious, and administrative structures of this formative world. In addition to correspondence and governmental archival material, the study utilizes the archives of the Portuguese Inquisition that was established soon after the perm…
"Heretical Plagues" and Censorship Cordons
In the 1570s the Mexican Inquisition prosecuted high-profile heresy and piracy cases against John Hawkins and other English and French corsairs. These trials prompted a high alert for Lutheran and Calvinist books as well as vernacular Scripture reaching Mexico. Many of the accused were simply merchants while others were indeed pirates, but their foreign national and linguistic identities placed them in the crosshairs of a larger debate about the …
Vir
Vir is an important contribution to the growing field on Latin American homosexuality, adding to this increasingly sophisticated body of historiography in ambitious ways. Based largely on civil court cases against men for male-male sexual activity, this book traces both a social and legal history. Significantly, this is one of the first full-length monographs on homosexuality in colonial Latin America.The chapters are arranged thematically and wi…
The Epistemological Politics of Vernacular Scripture in Sixteenth-Century Mexico
The year 1577 was a watershed for linguistic politics in Mexico. After more than five decades in Mexico, the Spanish crown signaled a break from its previous tolerance of the use of indigenous language in catechesis and doctrinal publications. The landmark case is the crown's confiscation of Bernardino de Sahagún's Historia General in 1577. Simultaneously, the Mexican Inquisition pursued an assault on vernacular Scripture, confiscating dozens of …
"Heretical Plagues" and Censorship Cordons
In the 1570s the Mexican Inquisition prosecuted high-profile heresy and piracy cases against John Hawkins and other English and French corsairs. These trials prompted a high alert for Lutheran and Calvinist books as well as vernacular Scripture reaching Mexico. Many of the accused were simply merchants while others were indeed pirates, but their foreign national and linguistic identities placed them in the crosshairs of a larger debate about the …
Vir
Vir is an important contribution to the growing field on Latin American homosexuality, adding to this increasingly sophisticated body of historiography in ambitious ways. Based largely on civil court cases against men for male-male sexual activity, this book traces both a social and legal history. Significantly, this is one of the first full-length monographs on homosexuality in colonial Latin America.The chapters are arranged thematically and wi…
Colonial Latin America
In 1968 José Costa Pôrto completed Nos tempos do Visitador , an important social history of the earliest permanent Portuguese colony in Brazil in Pernambuco and Bahia, analyzing a broad range of political, cultural, religious, and administrative structures of this formative world. In addition to correspondence and governmental archival material, the study utilizes the archives of the Portuguese Inquisition that was established soon after the perm…
"Heretical Plagues" and Censorship Cordons
In the 1570s the Mexican Inquisition prosecuted high-profile heresy and piracy cases against John Hawkins and other English and French corsairs. These trials prompted a high alert for Lutheran and Calvinist books as well as vernacular Scripture reaching Mexico. Many of the accused were simply merchants while others were indeed pirates, but their foreign national and linguistic identities placed them in the crosshairs of a larger debate about the …
Religious Chicanery in Michoacán's Emergent Church
Much of the literature on missionaries, evangelization, and conversion efforts in colonial Spanish America focuses on Spanish attempts to make good Catholics out of Indians and on Indian society wi
The Epistemological Politics of Vernacular Scripture in Sixteenth-Century Mexico
The year 1577 was a watershed for linguistic politics in Mexico. After more than five decades in Mexico, the Spanish crown signaled a break from its previous tolerance of the use of indigenous language in catechesis and doctrinal publications. The landmark case is the crown's confiscation of Bernardino de Sahagún's Historia General in 1577. Simultaneously, the Mexican Inquisition pursued an assault on vernacular Scripture, confiscating dozens of …
The Americas in the Modern Age
In this wide-ranging book, historian Lester D. Langley offers a fresh interpretation of the history of the modern Western hemisphere since the mid-nineteenth century. He evaluates the dynamics of hemispheric history, commencing with the articulation of the “two Americas” (Theodore Roosevelt’s America and the contrasting America described by Cuban revolutionary, essayist, and poet José Martí) and culminating with recent controversial efforts to fo…
Promiscuous Power
San Diego de Pamatácuaro
The Women Who Threw Corn
This book tells the stories of women from Spain, North Africa, Senegambia, and Canaries accused of sorcery in sixteenth-century Mexico for adapting native magic and healing practices. These non-native women – the mulata of Seville who cured the evil eye; the Canarian daughter of a Count who ate peyote and mixed her bath water into a man's mustard supply; the wife of a Spanish conquistador who let her hair loose and chanted to a Mesoamerican god w…
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