A Companion to Early Modern Lima
Journal Data
| Type | SOURCE_BOOK |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Brill (NL) |
| ISBN-13 | 9789004335363 |
| Total publications | 4 |
| Coverage period | 2019 - 2019 |
| Language | EN |
A Companion to Early Modern Lima introduces readers to the Spanish American city which became a vibrant urban center in the sixteenth-century world. As part of Brill's Companions to the Americas series, this volume presents current interdisciplinary research focused on the Peruvian viceregal capital. From ancient roots to its foundation by Pizarro, Lima was transformed into an imperial capital positioned between Atlantic and Pacific exchange networks. An international team of scholars examines issues ranging from literary history, politics, and religion to philosophy, historiography, and modes of intercontinental influence. The volume is divided into three sections: urban development and government, society, and culture. The essays collectively represent the scope of contemporary approaches, methodologies, and source materials pertinent to the study of sixteenth-century Lima, a city at the center of global interchange in the early modern world.
A Companion to Early Modern Lima
A Companion to Early Modern Lima introduces readers to the Spanish American city which became a vibrant urban center in the sixteenth-century world. As part of Brill's Companions to the Americas series, this volume presents current interdisciplinary research focused on the Peruvian viceregal capital. From ancient roots to its foundation by Pizarro, Lima was transformed into an imperial capital positioned between Atlantic and Pacific exchange netw…
Making Urban Colonial Lima (1535-1650)
This chapter examines the interplay of the traza or foundational plan for Lima’s urban grid based on Spanish colonial traditions with the actual development of the city. It considers the relationship between urban planning and the everyday practicalities of urban life through examination of the public spaces (the Plaza Mayor and other minor plazas) and the municipal drinking water pipeline network. These case studies are developed using archival …
The Sonic Construction of a New Capital
This contribution explores the early modern soundscapes of urban Lima during the 16th century by moving beyond the traditional approximation to the musical history of the city, which has been associated exclusively with the cathedral. Based on the recent approaches of urban musicology and the history of the emotions, this chapter explores the role that music – in its different degrees of elaboration – and more generally that sound had in the comp…
Privileging the Local
Early modern inhabitants of the Viceroyalty of Peru were caught between two worlds: they were simultaneously American and influenced by the unique geographic and cultural circumstances of their place of residence and part of the broader Spanish Empire. Furthermore, they faced negative characterizations of the New World by Europeans who dismissed it as a decadent, amoral place, where climatological and astrological conditions led to the degenerati…
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A Companion to Early Modern Lima
A Companion to Early Modern Lima introduces readers to the Spanish American city which became a vibrant urban center in the sixteenth-century world. As part of Brill's Companions to the Americas series, this volume presents current interdisciplinary research focused on the Peruvian viceregal capital. From ancient roots to its foundation by Pizarro, Lima was transformed into an imperial capital positioned between Atlantic and Pacific exchange netw…
Making Urban Colonial Lima (1535-1650)
This chapter examines the interplay of the traza or foundational plan for Lima’s urban grid based on Spanish colonial traditions with the actual development of the city. It considers the relationship between urban planning and the everyday practicalities of urban life through examination of the public spaces (the Plaza Mayor and other minor plazas) and the municipal drinking water pipeline network. These case studies are developed using archival …
The Sonic Construction of a New Capital
This contribution explores the early modern soundscapes of urban Lima during the 16th century by moving beyond the traditional approximation to the musical history of the city, which has been associated exclusively with the cathedral. Based on the recent approaches of urban musicology and the history of the emotions, this chapter explores the role that music – in its different degrees of elaboration – and more generally that sound had in the comp…
Privileging the Local
Early modern inhabitants of the Viceroyalty of Peru were caught between two worlds: they were simultaneously American and influenced by the unique geographic and cultural circumstances of their place of residence and part of the broader Spanish Empire. Furthermore, they faced negative characterizations of the New World by Europeans who dismissed it as a decadent, amoral place, where climatological and astrological conditions led to the degenerati…