Theater of a Thousand Wonders: A History of Miraculous Images and Shrines in New Spain

by William B. Taylor

The great many shrines of New Spain have become long-lived sites of shared devotion and contestation across social groups. They have provided a lasting sense of enchantment, of divine immanence in the present, and a hunger for epiphanies in daily life. This is a story of consolidation and growth during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, rather than one of rise and decline in the face of early stages of modernization. Based on research in a...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107102677
• ISBN13: 9781107102675
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 738 Pages
• Weight: 2.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.9" x 6.4" x 9.2"