Building colonial cities of God [electronic resource] : mendicant orders and urban culture in New Spain, 1570-1800 / Karen Melvin.
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TextPublication details: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2012.Description: xiii, 365 p. : mapSubject(s): - Catholic Church -- Mexico -- History -- 16th century
- Catholic Church -- Mexico -- History -- 17th century
- Friars -- Mexico -- History -- 16th century
- Friars -- Mexico -- History -- 17th century
- Colonial cities -- Mexico -- History -- 16th century
- Colonial cities -- Mexico -- History -- 17th century
- Mexico -- Church history -- 16th century
- Mexico -- Church history -- 17th century
- Mexico -- History -- Spanish colony, 1540-1810
- Spain -- Colonies -- America -- Religious life and customs
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- BX2820 .M45 2012eb
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Ordering cities : urban convents and friars, 1570-1810 -- Distinguishing habits : corporate and collective mendicant identities -- Serving cities : orders and their urban ministries -- Defining religions : mendicant connections and disconnections in urban society -- Loving complaints : orders and the formation of local religious culture.
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