1st Edition
The Dominicans in the Americas and the Philippines (c. 1500–c. 1820) Devotional Life, Catholic Literary Culture, and Models of Holiness
Introduction
David T. Orique, O.P., Rady Roldán-Figueroa, and Cynthia Folquer, O.P.
Chapter 1. Historiography of the Dominicans in the Americas
David T. Orique, O.P., Rady Roldán-Figueroa, and Cynthia Folquer, O.P.
Part I. Women and the Order of Preachers
Chapter 2. The Historical Evolution of Saint Rosa de Lima’s Nine Miracles (1586-1617). Stephen M. Hart
Chapter 3. Beatas and Friars in the Origins of Dominican Life in the New Kingdom of Granada: Interpreting a Relationship Model (ca.1586–ca.1676).
Sofía Brizuela Molina
Chapter 4. A Dominican Reading of the Religious and Social Experience of María Antonia de San José (1730-1799): A Funeral Sermon by Fr. Julián Perdriel, O.P.
Alicia Fraschina
Chapter 5. Maidens Consecrated to Christ: The Monasterio de Santa Inés de Montepulciano
in Colonial Santa Fe de Bogotá.
Oscar Leonardo Londoño
Chapter 6. Saint Rosa de Lima and the Spanish Monarchy: A Spanish Sainthood Model, 1668–1737.
Ybeth Arias Cuba
Part II. “Benditos Bienes”: Libraries and Material Patrimony
Chapter 7. Ortelius, La Justina, Some Arts of Teeth, and Other Elegant Phrases: The Books in the Library of the Convento Imperial de Santo Domingo de México.
Idalia García and María Fernanda Mora Reyes
Chapter 8. Blessed Goods: The Material Patrimony of the Order of Preachers in Colonial
Buenos Aires.
Gabriela de las Mercedes Quiroga
Chapter 9. Books for the Dominican Convent of Lima in 1594: The Formation of a Dominican Library.
Pedro Rueda Ramírez
Chapter 10. Imperialism and Print: Dominican Libraries in the Cagayan Valley,
Philippines, 1661.
Matthew J.K. Hill
Part III. Missions, Devotional and Daily Life
Chapter 11. Saint Martín de Porres and the Meanings of African Descent in Colonial Lima.
Celia Cussen
Chapter 12. The Cofradía del Santísimo Rosario of the Order of Preachers of Tucumán:
Composition, Links, and Corporate Issues (1791–1809).
Estela del Valle Calvente
Chapter 13. Beneficence and Charity in the Dominican Third Order: The Case of Manuel
Rodríguez de la Vega and the Lay Apostolate in Late-Colonial Buenos Aires.
Lucrecia Jijena
Chapter 14. The Historiography of the 1586 Miracle of Chiquinquirá and Its Rosary-Related
Historiographic Context in New Granada, 1555–1588.
Eugenio Martín Torres Torres, O.P.
Chapter 15. The Order of Friar Preachers and Their Mode of Building Up the Early
Evangelization of Southern Mexico.
Mark E. Wedig, O.P.
Part IV. The Order of Preachers and Their Writings
Chapter 16. Chronotope in the Text of Friar Gaspar de Carvajal’s: Relación del nuevo
descubrimiento del famoso río Grande de las Amazonas.
Marta González
Chapter 17. Contemplating Bats and Bees: Mayan Languages, Empiricism, and the Popol Vuh in Friar Francisco Ximénez's La Historia Natural del Reino de
Guatemala (1722).
Randall Meissen, L.C.
Chapter 18. “Unfreedom” and Francisco de Vitoria’s s De potestate civili.
John Pollock-Parker
Chapter 19. Friar Ramón Casaus Torres y las Plazas, O.P., and his Sermons, 1794–1808. Sergio Rosas Salas
Biography
David T. Orique, O.P., PhD, is Professor of History at Providence College. His publications include To Heaven or to Hell: Bartolomé de Las Casas’s Confesionario (2018) and The Unheard Voice of Law from the Often-Heard Text: A New Rendition of Bartolomé de Las Casas’s Brevísima relación de la destruición de las Indias (2021).
Rady Roldán-Figueroa, ThD, is Professor of the History of Christianity at Boston University. His publications include The Ascetic Spirituality of Juan de Avila (1499-1569) (2010) and The Martyrs of Japan: Publication History and Catholic Missions in the Spanish World (Spain, New Spain, and the Philippines, 1597–1700) (2021).
Cynthia Folquer, O.P., PhD, is Professor of History at the Universidad Católica Argentina and Director of the Revista Itinerantes, de Historia y Religión. She has published books on religious history and is a founding member of networks and associations for the study of the Order of Preachers.
