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Christian Texts for Aztecs

  • The Times Literary Supplement calls Christian Texts for Aztecs: Art and Liturgy in Colonial Mexico “a superb study. . . . In enthralling detail, Lara makes it clear that the indigenous Christian culture that emerged . . . was a marvellously spontaneous outpouring, fed by the imagination of a group of remarkable mendicant friars who . . . ‘dared to use the metaphors, symbols, and values of the peoples of Mesoamerica’ to bring about a ‘rich transfusion of the message into the very blood of a sophisticated culture.’” -Times Literary Supplement, July 2, 2008

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