Full Description
A Companion to Early Modern Lima introduces readers to the Spanish American city which became a vibrant urban center in the sixteenth-century world. As part of Brill's Companions to the Americas series, this volume presents current interdisciplinary research focused on the Peruvian viceregal capital. From ancient roots to its foundation by Pizarro, Lima was transformed into an imperial capital positioned between Atlantic and Pacific exchange networks. An international team of scholars examines issues ranging from literary history, politics, and religion to philosophy, historiography, and modes of intercontinental influence. The volume is divided into three sections: urban development and government, society, and culture. The essays collectively represent the scope of contemporary approaches, methodologies, and source materials pertinent to the study of sixteenth-century Lima, a city at the center of global interchange in the early modern world.
Contents
Contents
Figures and Tables
List of Archival Sources
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Emily A. Engel
Part 1: Urban Development and Government
1 The Cultural Trajectory of the Central Peruvian Coast, The Territory and Its People in the Valleys of Pre-Hispanic Lima
Giancarlo Marcone Flores
2 Before Lima: The Rímac-Lurín Area on the Eve of Spanish Conquest
Peter Eeckhout
3 Taxation, Obligation, and Corporate Identity in 16th-Century Lima
Karen B. Graubart
4 Making Urban Colonial Lima (1535-1650): Pipelines and Plazas
Martha G. Bell and Gabriel Ramón
5 Lima: A Legal City in the Early Colonial Andes (1538-1600)
Renzo Honores
6 Don Juan de Padilla y Pastrana (1596-1670), Advocate of Peru's Indigenous Population?
Alexandre Coello de la Rosa
Part 2: Society
7 Lima and the Introduction of Peru into the Global Trade of the 16th Century
Margarita Suárez
8 Indigenous Populations in Early Lima: Origins, Possessions, and Networks
Gabriela Ramos
9 Society and Education: The University of San Marcos in the 16th Century
Pedro M. Guibovich Pérez
10 Women Writers and Hispanic Hegemony in the 17th-Century Viceroyalty of Peru: The Cases of Clarinda and Amarilis
Martina Vinatea Recoba
11 "Para el aumento del servicio de Dios [For the intensification of service to God]": Formalization of Piety and Charity in Lima's Confraternities during the 16th and 17th Centuries
Diego Edgar Lévano Medina
12 Unsettling and Unsettled Readings: Occult Scripts in 16th-Century Lima and the Challenges of Andean Knowledge
Claudia Brosseder
Part 3: Culture
13 "Reina, limpia y pura [Queen of Heaven, clean and pure]", Italian Painters and Marian Imagery in 16th-Century Lima
Irma Barriga Calle
14 Fashioning Lima's Virgin of Copacabana: Indigenous Strategies of Negotiation in the Colonial Capital
Ximena A. Gómez
15 Privileging the Local: Prints and the New World in Early Modern Lima
Emily C. Floyd
16 British Piracy and the Origins of a Colonial Imaginary in 16th-Century Lima
María Gracia Ríos
17 The Book and Western Culture in 16th-Century Lima
Carlos Alberto González Sánchez
18 The Callao Contract of 1599: Actors Set the Stage for an Early Modern Lima
Susan Finque
19 The Sonic Construction of a New Capital: Urban Soundscapes and Acoustic Communities in 16th-Century Lima
Javier Marín-López
Conclusion
Leo J. Garofalo
Index
