Conflict and Conversion in Sixteenth Century Central Mexico: The Augustinian War on and Beyond the Chichimeca Frontier

by Robert H. Jackson

In the sixteenth century Franciscan, Dominican, and Augustinian missionaries attempted to convert the native populations of central Mexico. The native peoples generally viewed the new religion in terms very different from that of the missionaries. As conflict broke out after 1550 as Spaniards invaded the Chichimeca frontier (the frontier between sedentary and nomadic natives), the missionaries faced new challenges on both sides of the frontier. Some...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004232451
• ISBN13: 9789004232457
• Release Date: April 2013
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.4"