History, Languages, and Cultures of the Spanish and Portuguese Worlds

This book explores different aspects of the story of how the Spanish priests and missionaries of the Catholic Church in post-conquest Peru systematically attempted to “incarnate” Christianity in Quechua, a large family of languages and dialects spoken by the dense Andes populations once united under the Inca empire.

This work examines death rituals in South America and how traditional native American beliefs fell to the wayside when Christian rituals came into power.

Wolf’s study of Juan de Segovia deftly weaves together the Castilian’s education, career as a staunch conciliarist, and peaceful approach to Islam.

Contested Territory explores the ways in which Peru's early colonial landscapes were experienced and portrayed, especially by the Spanish conquerors but also by their conquered subjects.

This text offers a translation of Antonio de Sosa's sixteenth-century chronicle of his travels in North Africa, and particularly Algeria, with an introduction by María Antonia Garcés.

The Andean Hybrid Baroque is the first comprehensive study of the architecture and architectural sculpture of Southern Peru in the late colonial period (1660s-1820s).