Idolizing Mary: Maya-Catholic Icons in Yucatán, Mexico

by Amara Solari

In the summer of 1648, yellow fever appeared for the first time on the Yucat n Peninsula, claiming the lives of roughly one-third of the population. To combat this epidemic, Spanish colonial authorities carried a miracle-working Marian icon in procession from Itzmal to the capital city of M rida and back again as a means of invoking divine intercession. Idolizing Mary uses this event and this icon to open a discussion about the early and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271083328
• ISBN13: 9780271083322
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.4" x 10.3"