Martin Nesvig
Biographic Data
| ID | 683468 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Martin Nesvig |
| GIVEN NAMES | Martin |
| FAMILY NAME | Nesvig |
| SIGNATURE | NESVIG M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Miami |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
On Asunción Lavrin’s Men of God , or Why I Never Became a Friar
Fallen from Heaven: The Enduring Tradition of Europeans as Gods in the Americas. By Nicholas Griffiths
The Two Taríacuris and the Early Colonial and Prehispanic Past of Michoacán
Book Review| February 01 2021 The Two Taríacuris and the Early Colonial and Prehispanic Past of Michoacán The Two Taríacuris and the Early Colonial and Prehispanic Past of Michoacán. By Haskell, David L.Louisville: University Press of Colorado, 2018. Illustrations. Maps. Figures. Table. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xiii, 263 pp. Paper, $31.95. Martin Nesvig Martin Nesvig University of Miami Search for other works by this author on: This Site Googl…
San Diego de Pamatácuaro: A Mountain Shrine in Colonial Mexico
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…
Indigenous Elites and Creole Identity in Colonial Mexico, 1500-1800
Peter Villella has provided a welcome addition to the scholarly literature with this longue durée intellectual-cultural history. North American Anglophone scholarship on indigenous histories of Latin America have focused heavily on responses to Spanish rule and Spanish culture. This book seeks to understand, rather, the multidirectional processes of identity formation—Spanish, indigenous, mestizo—in Mexico. In the author’s words, the book “is not…
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 …
Spanish Men, Indigenous Language, and Informal Interpreters in Postcontact Mexico
In the 1570s the alcalde of Motines (located in the coastal mountains of modern day Michoacán) was denounced to the Inquisition for having told the indigenous residents that they did not need to spend money decorating their churches and for engaging in other heresies, including Calvinism. His defense was simple; he claimed that he and his secretary could only speak standardized Nahuatl, and since the natives of Motines did not speak this dialect …
The Index of Prohibited Books in Sixteenth Century Mexico: Theological Conservatism and Adaptive Responses to Censorship
In this article the author discusses two principal themes: (1) the ways in which the Inquisition in Mexico exercised its power to censor books and to remove suspect or forbidden books from circulation; and (2) the ways in which this process was less effective and omnipotent than is generally assumed. The time frame for this article is mostly the sixteenth century with some consideration of the early seventeenth century
Popular and Organized Religion in Modern and Contemporary Mexico
Popular and Organized Religion in Modern and Contemporary Mexico Martin Nesvig (bio) The Maya and Catholicism: An Encounter of Worldviews. By John D. Early. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2006. Pp. 311. $59.95 cloth. Contemporary Maya Spirituality: The Ancient Ways Are Not Lost. By Jean Molesky-Poz. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2006. Pp. 201. $25.00 paper. Days of Death, Days of Life: Ritual in the Popular Culture of Oaxaca. By K…
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: Colonial Mexico and the Transatlantic Book Trade
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 …
Recent Work on Early Western Mexico and the Revival of the Black Legend
Journal Article Recent Work on Early Western Mexico and the Revival of the Black Legend Get access Martin Nesvig Martin Nesvig Department of History, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL 33124 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 39, Issue 2, Winter 2005, Pages 531–538, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh.2005.0155 Published: 01 December 2005
Vir: Perceptions of Manliness in Andalucía and Mexico, 1561-1699
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 Complicated Terrain of Latin American Homosexuality
This essay is both a historiographical review of male homosexuality in Latin America and a historical synthesis of the intellectual and cultural traditions of attitudes, mores, and laws regarding homosexuality.1 The topic of male homosexuality is a powerful lens through which historians can address and problematize the dilemmas of reconstructing the social past.2 Taken originally as a corrective against overly diplomatic and political history, th…
The Lure of the Perverse: Moral Negotiation of Pederasty in Porfirian Mexico
This article examines the dynamic relationship between a criminologist, Carlos Roumagnac, and the inmates that he interviewed in the large Mexico City prison, Belem, in the first decade of the twentieth century. In particular the piece delves into the way that pederasty, or male homosexuality, was discussed in these interviews, revealing the ways in which Mexican men understood homosexuality as morally unseemly but acceptable if left unspoken. Th…
Crime and Punishment in Late Colonial Mexico City, 1692-1810
This book offers a pithy summary of crime and law as social practice in late colonial Mexico City. Excellent studies exist for rural crime, Indian responses to legal administration, and urban elite society in colonial Latin America in general, but studies of urban crime are scant; in fact, social history of crime has been understudied for colonial Mexico, with most scholarship focusing on jurisprudence or the Inquisition. Gabriel Haslip-Viera foc…
Spanish Men, Indigenous Language, and Informal Interpreters in Postcontact Mexico
In the 1570s the alcalde of Motines (located in the coastal mountains of modern day Michoacán) was denounced to the Inquisition for having told the indigenous residents that they did not need to spend money decorating their churches and for engaging in other heresies, including Calvinism. His defense was simple; he claimed that he and his secretary could only speak standardized Nahuatl, and since the natives of Motines did not speak this dialect …
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 Complicated Terrain of Latin American Homosexuality
This essay is both a historiographical review of male homosexuality in Latin America and a historical synthesis of the intellectual and cultural traditions of attitudes, mores, and laws regarding homosexuality.1 The topic of male homosexuality is a powerful lens through which historians can address and problematize the dilemmas of reconstructing the social past.2 Taken originally as a corrective against overly diplomatic and political history, th…
Indigenous Elites and Creole Identity in Colonial Mexico, 1500-1800
Peter Villella has provided a welcome addition to the scholarly literature with this longue durée intellectual-cultural history. North American Anglophone scholarship on indigenous histories of Latin America have focused heavily on responses to Spanish rule and Spanish culture. This book seeks to understand, rather, the multidirectional processes of identity formation—Spanish, indigenous, mestizo—in Mexico. In the author’s words, the book “is not…
"Heretical Plagues" and Censorship Cordons: Colonial Mexico and the Transatlantic Book Trade
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 …
The Lure of the Perverse: Moral Negotiation of Pederasty in Porfirian Mexico
This article examines the dynamic relationship between a criminologist, Carlos Roumagnac, and the inmates that he interviewed in the large Mexico City prison, Belem, in the first decade of the twentieth century. In particular the piece delves into the way that pederasty, or male homosexuality, was discussed in these interviews, revealing the ways in which Mexican men understood homosexuality as morally unseemly but acceptable if left unspoken. Th…
The Lure of the Perverse: Moral Negotiation of Pederasty in Porfirian Mexico
This article examines the dynamic relationship between a criminologist, Carlos Roumagnac, and the inmates that he interviewed in the large Mexico City prison, Belem, in the first decade of the twentieth century. In particular the piece delves into the way that pederasty, or male homosexuality, was discussed in these interviews, revealing the ways in which Mexican men understood homosexuality as morally unseemly but acceptable if left unspoken. Th…
Crime and Punishment in Late Colonial Mexico City, 1692-1810
This book offers a pithy summary of crime and law as social practice in late colonial Mexico City. Excellent studies exist for rural crime, Indian responses to legal administration, and urban elite society in colonial Latin America in general, but studies of urban crime are scant; in fact, social history of crime has been understudied for colonial Mexico, with most scholarship focusing on jurisprudence or the Inquisition. Gabriel Haslip-Viera foc…
The Complicated Terrain of Latin American Homosexuality
This essay is both a historiographical review of male homosexuality in Latin America and a historical synthesis of the intellectual and cultural traditions of attitudes, mores, and laws regarding homosexuality.1 The topic of male homosexuality is a powerful lens through which historians can address and problematize the dilemmas of reconstructing the social past.2 Taken originally as a corrective against overly diplomatic and political history, th…
Vir: Perceptions of Manliness in Andalucía and Mexico, 1561-1699
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…
Recent Work on Early Western Mexico and the Revival of the Black Legend
Journal Article Recent Work on Early Western Mexico and the Revival of the Black Legend Get access Martin Nesvig Martin Nesvig Department of History, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL 33124 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 39, Issue 2, Winter 2005, Pages 531–538, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh.2005.0155 Published: 01 December 2005
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: Colonial Mexico and the Transatlantic Book Trade
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
Popular and Organized Religion in Modern and Contemporary Mexico
Popular and Organized Religion in Modern and Contemporary Mexico Martin Nesvig (bio) The Maya and Catholicism: An Encounter of Worldviews. By John D. Early. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2006. Pp. 311. $59.95 cloth. Contemporary Maya Spirituality: The Ancient Ways Are Not Lost. By Jean Molesky-Poz. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2006. Pp. 201. $25.00 paper. Days of Death, Days of Life: Ritual in the Popular Culture of Oaxaca. By K…
The Index of Prohibited Books in Sixteenth Century Mexico: Theological Conservatism and Adaptive Responses to Censorship
In this article the author discusses two principal themes: (1) the ways in which the Inquisition in Mexico exercised its power to censor books and to remove suspect or forbidden books from circulation; and (2) the ways in which this process was less effective and omnipotent than is generally assumed. The time frame for this article is mostly the sixteenth century with some consideration of the early seventeenth century
Spanish Men, Indigenous Language, and Informal Interpreters in Postcontact Mexico
In the 1570s the alcalde of Motines (located in the coastal mountains of modern day Michoacán) was denounced to the Inquisition for having told the indigenous residents that they did not need to spend money decorating their churches and for engaging in other heresies, including Calvinism. His defense was simple; he claimed that he and his secretary could only speak standardized Nahuatl, and since the natives of Motines did not speak this dialect …
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…
Indigenous Elites and Creole Identity in Colonial Mexico, 1500-1800
Peter Villella has provided a welcome addition to the scholarly literature with this longue durée intellectual-cultural history. North American Anglophone scholarship on indigenous histories of Latin America have focused heavily on responses to Spanish rule and Spanish culture. This book seeks to understand, rather, the multidirectional processes of identity formation—Spanish, indigenous, mestizo—in Mexico. In the author’s words, the book “is not…
San Diego de Pamatácuaro: A Mountain Shrine in Colonial Mexico
The Two Taríacuris and the Early Colonial and Prehispanic Past of Michoacán
Book Review| February 01 2021 The Two Taríacuris and the Early Colonial and Prehispanic Past of Michoacán The Two Taríacuris and the Early Colonial and Prehispanic Past of Michoacán. By Haskell, David L.Louisville: University Press of Colorado, 2018. Illustrations. Maps. Figures. Table. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xiii, 263 pp. Paper, $31.95. Martin Nesvig Martin Nesvig University of Miami Search for other works by this author on: This Site Googl…
Fallen from Heaven: The Enduring Tradition of Europeans as Gods in the Americas. By Nicholas Griffiths
On Asunción Lavrin’s Men of God , or Why I Never Became a Friar
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