A Potential Saint Thwarted: The Politics of Religion and Sanctity in Late Eighteenth-Century New Spain

2007 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 169-185 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen. Melvin
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
New Spain ◽  
Late Eighteenth Century ◽  
Late Eighteenth ◽  
Politics Of Religion

Demographic, Ethnic and Occupational Structure of New Mexico, 1790

1978 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-88 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alicia V. Tjarks
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
New Mexico ◽  
New Spain ◽  
Decisive Role ◽  
Great Difficulty ◽  
Occupational Structure ◽  
Population Statistics ◽  
Late Eighteenth Century ◽  
Late Eighteenth ◽  
Franciscan Missions

Since early times civil and religious authorities of New Spain showed considerable interest in population statistics of New Mexico. Such an interest was directly related to the peculiarities of settlement in the province since the Reconquest, fourteen years after the bloody Indian uprising of 1680. From then on, control over New Mexico could only be sustained with great difficulty—final pacification could not be achieved until the late eighteenth century—for a purely geopolitical reason: keeping New Mexico for the Crown as a defensive bulwark in the northern approaches of New Spain against the penetration of hostile Indians and foreigners. In that sense, the Franciscan missions performed a decisive role in affirming the Spanish occupation of the territory.

scholarly journals Lady of the House: Augustina Meza (ca. 1758–1819), Print Publishing, and the Women of Mexican Late Colonial Art

Arts ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 12
Author(s):  
Kelly Donahue-Wallace
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Mexico City ◽  
New Spain ◽  
Colonial Mexico ◽  
Late Eighteenth Century ◽  
Colonial Art ◽  
Late Eighteenth ◽  
Women's Lives

Using archival records of the Sagrario Metropolitano and material analysis of extant prints, the paper presents the life and work of the only known woman printmaker in viceregal New Spain, María Augustina Meza. It traces Meza and her work through two marriages to fellow engravers and a 50-year career as owner of an independent print publishing shop in Mexico City. In doing so, the paper places Meza’s print publishing business and its practices within the context of artists’ shops run by women in the mid- to late-eighteenth century. The article simultaneously extends the recognized role of women in printing and broadens our understanding of women within the business of both printmaking and painting in late colonial Mexico City. It furthermore joins the scholarship demonstrating with new empirical research that the lived realities of women in viceregal New Spain were more complex than traditional, stereotypical visions of women’s lives have previously allowed.

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