Yarí Pérez Marín
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- May 2021
- ISBN:
- 9781789622508
- eISBN:
- 9781800851016
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3828/liverpool/9781789622508.003.0002
- Subject:
- History, History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
Chapter 1 explores the Secretos de Chirurgia (1567), a text written by Pedro Arias de Benavides, a Spanish surgeon who travelled throughout the Caribbean, Mexico and Central America in the ...
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Chapter 1 explores the Secretos de Chirurgia (1567), a text written by Pedro Arias de Benavides, a Spanish surgeon who travelled throughout the Caribbean, Mexico and Central America in the mid-sixteenth century. Part surgical manual, part medieval book of secrets, part voyage diary, the Secretos weaves together medical and anatomical information alongside the author's own extended personal journey. My analysis situates the text in the scientific context of the time, highlighting Benavides’s innovative use of medical illustrations, several of which are printed life-size and transform the work into a surgical instrument in and of itself. By comparing marginalia present in surviving copies of the book, I offer a roadmap into the range of possible period responses on the part of early modern readers. Sold in Europe as well as in the Americas, the text’s frequent humorous anecdotes betrayed a growing unease at the marginal status assigned to members of overseas communities by European authorities, anticipating future strategies of resistance to colonial rule, and calling into question the extent to which the peninsular/criollo divide is a useful distinction when examining materials written in colonial Mexico during its foundational period.Less
Chapter 1 explores the Secretos de Chirurgia (1567), a text written by Pedro Arias de Benavides, a Spanish surgeon who travelled throughout the Caribbean, Mexico and Central America in the mid-sixteenth century. Part surgical manual, part medieval book of secrets, part voyage diary, the Secretos weaves together medical and anatomical information alongside the author's own extended personal journey. My analysis situates the text in the scientific context of the time, highlighting Benavides’s innovative use of medical illustrations, several of which are printed life-size and transform the work into a surgical instrument in and of itself. By comparing marginalia present in surviving copies of the book, I offer a roadmap into the range of possible period responses on the part of early modern readers. Sold in Europe as well as in the Americas, the text’s frequent humorous anecdotes betrayed a growing unease at the marginal status assigned to members of overseas communities by European authorities, anticipating future strategies of resistance to colonial rule, and calling into question the extent to which the peninsular/criollo divide is a useful distinction when examining materials written in colonial Mexico during its foundational period.
MIGUEL A. Bretos
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- January 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780813038100
- eISBN:
- 9780813041568
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813038100.003.0002
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Latin American Studies
The origin of Matanzas's strange name (“Matanzas” literally means “slaughters”) can be traced back to around 1510, when most of the crew of a Spanish vessel that had wrecked at the bay were killed by ...
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The origin of Matanzas's strange name (“Matanzas” literally means “slaughters”) can be traced back to around 1510, when most of the crew of a Spanish vessel that had wrecked at the bay were killed by the locals. In 1628, the site experienced a burst of fame when Piet Heyn, sailing on behalf of the Dutch West India Company, captured the Spanish flota or convoy from New Spain at the harbor, inflicting a disastrous defeat on Spain. The Spanish admiral, Juan de Benavides, was eventually executed for his failure that day.Less
The origin of Matanzas's strange name (“Matanzas” literally means “slaughters”) can be traced back to around 1510, when most of the crew of a Spanish vessel that had wrecked at the bay were killed by the locals. In 1628, the site experienced a burst of fame when Piet Heyn, sailing on behalf of the Dutch West India Company, captured the Spanish flota or convoy from New Spain at the harbor, inflicting a disastrous defeat on Spain. The Spanish admiral, Juan de Benavides, was eventually executed for his failure that day.
Anna M. Nogar
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- September 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780520295391
- eISBN:
- 9780520968165
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520295391.003.0005
- Subject:
- History, American History: early to 18th Century
As Anna Nogar shows in her essay, “Junípero Serra’s Muse,” María de Jesús de Ágreda’s influence on Serra was profound, and her writings and seemingly countless bilocations to New Spain, where she ...
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As Anna Nogar shows in her essay, “Junípero Serra’s Muse,” María de Jesús de Ágreda’s influence on Serra was profound, and her writings and seemingly countless bilocations to New Spain, where she preached to Indians in their own language, were never far from the minds of Franciscan missionaries in New Spain. As Nogar argues, Serra and other missionaries carried copies of her writings to Alta California when they embarked on the colonization of the region and were spurred on by their deep faith in her revelations.
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As Anna Nogar shows in her essay, “Junípero Serra’s Muse,” María de Jesús de Ágreda’s influence on Serra was profound, and her writings and seemingly countless bilocations to New Spain, where she preached to Indians in their own language, were never far from the minds of Franciscan missionaries in New Spain. As Nogar argues, Serra and other missionaries carried copies of her writings to Alta California when they embarked on the colonization of the region and were spurred on by their deep faith in her revelations.
