Eva Maria Mehl
Biographic Data
| ID | 709102 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eva Maria Mehl |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eva Maria |
| FAMILY NAME | Mehl |
| SIGNATURE | MEHL E M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Carolina Wilmington |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Nuns Navigating the Spanish Empire
This is an engaging study of the 15-month crusade of a small group of brave women who left Toledo, Spain, in 1620 to found a female convent under the Franciscan First Rule of Saint Clare in Manila, Philippines. Sarah E. Owens, professor of Spanish in the Department of Hispanic Studies at the College of Charleston, relies on a very unique source, an unpublished 450-folio biography by one of the convent's cofounders, Sor Ana de Cristo, about their …
Forced Migration in the Spanish Pacific World: From Mexico to the Philippines, 1765–1811
Nearly 4,000 Mexican troops and convicts landed in Manila Bay in the Philippines from 1765 to 1811. The majority were veterans and recruits; the rest were victims of vagrancy campaigns. Eva Maria Mehl follows these forced exiles from recruiting centers, jails and streets in central Mexico to Spanish outposts in the Philippines, and traces relationships of power between the imperial authorities in Madrid and the colonial governments and population…
Mission and Ecstasy: Contemplative Women and Salvation in Colonial Spanish America and the Philippines
This well-researched study focuses on the religious life of professed nuns and laywomen in mid- and late colonial Spanish America and the Philippines. In early modern Catholic discourse, female virtue was based on adherence to silence, obedience, chastity, and enclosure. Magnus Lundberg does not question that contemplative women in the Spanish Indies upheld these ideals. Rather, he aims at examining to what degree these women “had or were given a…
Mexican Recruits and Vagrants in Late Eighteenth-Century Philippines: Empire, Social Order, and Bourbon Reforms in the Spanish Pacific World
Between 1765 and 1811, Mexico City sent to Manila, Philippines, about 4,000 Mexicans, including recruits and vagrants who had been sentenced to military service or public works. At this time, the Spanish empire was undertaking a military overhaul in the Pacific. However, viceregal authorities used Manila's need for military replacements to exile individuals who embodied despised moral attributes. The office of the viceroy was apparently unaware o…
Mexican Recruits and Vagrants in Late Eighteenth-Century Philippines: Empire, Social Order, and Bourbon Reforms in the Spanish Pacific World
Between 1765 and 1811, Mexico City sent to Manila, Philippines, about 4,000 Mexicans, including recruits and vagrants who had been sentenced to military service or public works. At this time, the Spanish empire was undertaking a military overhaul in the Pacific. However, viceregal authorities used Manila's need for military replacements to exile individuals who embodied despised moral attributes. The office of the viceroy was apparently unaware o…
Mexican Recruits and Vagrants in Late Eighteenth-Century Philippines: Empire, Social Order, and Bourbon Reforms in the Spanish Pacific World
Between 1765 and 1811, Mexico City sent to Manila, Philippines, about 4,000 Mexicans, including recruits and vagrants who had been sentenced to military service or public works. At this time, the Spanish empire was undertaking a military overhaul in the Pacific. However, viceregal authorities used Manila's need for military replacements to exile individuals who embodied despised moral attributes. The office of the viceroy was apparently unaware o…
Forced Migration in the Spanish Pacific World: From Mexico to the Philippines, 1765–1811
Nearly 4,000 Mexican troops and convicts landed in Manila Bay in the Philippines from 1765 to 1811. The majority were veterans and recruits; the rest were victims of vagrancy campaigns. Eva Maria Mehl follows these forced exiles from recruiting centers, jails and streets in central Mexico to Spanish outposts in the Philippines, and traces relationships of power between the imperial authorities in Madrid and the colonial governments and population…
Mission and Ecstasy: Contemplative Women and Salvation in Colonial Spanish America and the Philippines
This well-researched study focuses on the religious life of professed nuns and laywomen in mid- and late colonial Spanish America and the Philippines. In early modern Catholic discourse, female virtue was based on adherence to silence, obedience, chastity, and enclosure. Magnus Lundberg does not question that contemplative women in the Spanish Indies upheld these ideals. Rather, he aims at examining to what degree these women “had or were given a…
Nuns Navigating the Spanish Empire
This is an engaging study of the 15-month crusade of a small group of brave women who left Toledo, Spain, in 1620 to found a female convent under the Franciscan First Rule of Saint Clare in Manila, Philippines. Sarah E. Owens, professor of Spanish in the Department of Hispanic Studies at the College of Charleston, relies on a very unique source, an unpublished 450-folio biography by one of the convent's cofounders, Sor Ana de Cristo, about their …
History (4 works) · Ancient history (3 works) · Colonialism (3 works) · Empire (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Philippine History and Culture (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Economic history (2 works)