Thomas James Dandelet
- Published in print:
- 2001
- Published Online:
- October 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780300089561
- eISBN:
- 9780300133776
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300089561.003.0005
- Subject:
- History, European Early Modern History
This chapter shows how the Spanish domination of Rome coincided with the conquest and consolidation of Spanish power in the New World. Colonization was a practice on which Spanish imperialism relied ...
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This chapter shows how the Spanish domination of Rome coincided with the conquest and consolidation of Spanish power in the New World. Colonization was a practice on which Spanish imperialism relied in both the New World and Rome, while the Catholic Kings encouraged the growth of a large Spanish community made up of both Iberians and Italians who helped carry out their agenda. Under the reign of Philip II, the Spanish community and its adherents grew until they constituted a large percentage of the Roman population and were the dominant foreign faction. Charity played no small role in ensuring a continuing Spanish presence and identity in Rome, and also protected and furthered the reputation of the community. As one of the public expressions of Counter-Reformation piety, charitable giving was essential to Spanish piety and patronage in the city.Less
This chapter shows how the Spanish domination of Rome coincided with the conquest and consolidation of Spanish power in the New World. Colonization was a practice on which Spanish imperialism relied in both the New World and Rome, while the Catholic Kings encouraged the growth of a large Spanish community made up of both Iberians and Italians who helped carry out their agenda. Under the reign of Philip II, the Spanish community and its adherents grew until they constituted a large percentage of the Roman population and were the dominant foreign faction. Charity played no small role in ensuring a continuing Spanish presence and identity in Rome, and also protected and furthered the reputation of the community. As one of the public expressions of Counter-Reformation piety, charitable giving was essential to Spanish piety and patronage in the city.
Roberto Valcárcel Rojas
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- September 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780813061566
- eISBN:
- 9780813051499
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813061566.001.0001
- Subject:
- Archaeology, Historical Archaeology
Archaeology of Early Colonial Interaction at El Chorro de Maíta, Cuba, examines the interactions between indigenous peoples and European invaders in the Caribbean and the way in which domination ...
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Archaeology of Early Colonial Interaction at El Chorro de Maíta, Cuba, examines the interactions between indigenous peoples and European invaders in the Caribbean and the way in which domination imposed by a foreign model ultimately transformed this relationship into a system of colonial subordination. Investigations of the domestic and funerary contexts at the El Chorro de Maíta, in the northeast of Cuba, permit the archaeological visualization of the cultural and ethnic diversity imposed by colonial domination. Presented, for the first time, is the identification and archaeological study of an indigenous village that was transformed during the 16th-century into a town of Indian encomendados, which is to say working for the Spanish as forced labor. The study distinguishes the Christianization of the indigenous inhabitants, principally among those of elite status, and the process of ethnogenesis which gave rise to the “Indian” as a colonial category. This occurred in a scenario where indigenous mortuary practices were maintained, and handled and restricted the Hispanic material culture. It treats the process that created the cemetery with syncretic characteristics, in which there is an adjustment to a process of transculturation where the cultures and the individuals are transformed, and in which the indigenous peoples demonstrated a capacity for resistance and adaptation that is generally underestimated. This book demonstrates the value of archaeology to observe unrecorded episodes of Caribbean and American history that are vital for constructing the link with the pre-Columbian world and the construction of an integrated and new history.Less
Archaeology of Early Colonial Interaction at El Chorro de Maíta, Cuba, examines the interactions between indigenous peoples and European invaders in the Caribbean and the way in which domination imposed by a foreign model ultimately transformed this relationship into a system of colonial subordination. Investigations of the domestic and funerary contexts at the El Chorro de Maíta, in the northeast of Cuba, permit the archaeological visualization of the cultural and ethnic diversity imposed by colonial domination. Presented, for the first time, is the identification and archaeological study of an indigenous village that was transformed during the 16th-century into a town of Indian encomendados, which is to say working for the Spanish as forced labor. The study distinguishes the Christianization of the indigenous inhabitants, principally among those of elite status, and the process of ethnogenesis which gave rise to the “Indian” as a colonial category. This occurred in a scenario where indigenous mortuary practices were maintained, and handled and restricted the Hispanic material culture. It treats the process that created the cemetery with syncretic characteristics, in which there is an adjustment to a process of transculturation where the cultures and the individuals are transformed, and in which the indigenous peoples demonstrated a capacity for resistance and adaptation that is generally underestimated. This book demonstrates the value of archaeology to observe unrecorded episodes of Caribbean and American history that are vital for constructing the link with the pre-Columbian world and the construction of an integrated and new history.
