The Dominicans in the Americas and the Philippines (c. 1500–c. 1820): Devotional Life, Catholic Literary Culture, and Models of Holiness(Routledge Studies in the History of the Americas)

The Dominicans in the Americas and the Philippines (c. 1500–c. 1820) is part of a renewal of interest in the global history of the Dominican Order. Many of the essays were carefully selected among some of the papers presented at the III International Conference on the History of the Order of Preachers in the Americas, a gathering that stands in continuity with the conferences of Mexico (2013) and Bogotá (2016). This book, the contributors of which are active researchers specializing in the history of the Order of Preachers in Latin America, is organized in four parts: Women and the Order of Preachers; “Benditos Bienes”: Libraries and Material Patrimony; Missions, Devotional, and Daily Life; and The Order of Preachers and Their Writings. Contributions deal with different subfields including art history, gender studies, history of the book, and intellectual history more broadly. Additionally, it contains a chapter examining the historiography of the Order of Preachers in Latin America. Covering the time range from 1510 to the early nineteenth century, the book fills a gap in the historiography of the Order of Preachers in the Americas, especially in English-language scholarly literature. Students of Latin American history, the history of Christianity, and the history of global Catholicism will surely find the volume to be of great interest.

Table of Contents:
Introduction David Orique, O.P., Rady Roldán-Figueroa, and Cynthia Folquer, O.P. Chapter 1. Historiography of the Dominicans in the Americas David 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 Santa Rosa de Lima’s Nine Miracles (1586-1617). Stephen 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. Julian 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 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 Chapter 8. Blessed Goods: The Material Patrimony of the Order of Preachers in Colonial Buenos Aires. Gabriela 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 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 Torres Torres, O.P. Chapter 15. The Order of Friar Preachers and their Mode of Building-Up the Early Evangelization of Southern Mexico. Mark 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 Gonzalez 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. Serigo Rosas Salas

About the Author :
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.