Vol. VI, No. II, May 2002

Journal of Early Modern History

Contacts, Comparisons, Contrasts


 

Special Issue:

From Juridical Proof to Accidental Ethnography: Narratives about Idolatry in Colonial Mexico

Articles

Introduction by Kevin Gosner

David E. Tavárez

Idolatry as an Ontological Question: Native Consciousness and Juridical Proof in Colonial Mexico

John F. Chuchiak IV 

Toward a Regional Definition of Idolatry: Reexamining Idolatry Trials in the “Relaciónes de Méritos and their Role in Defining the Concept of “Idolatria” in Colonial Yucatán, 1570-1780

Rick Warner

“Ambivalent Conversions” in Nayarit: Shifting Views of Idolatry

 

Review Article

Steve Hindle

States, Markets, and Entitlements in Early Modern Europe

 

Book Reviews

  • Manuel Herrero Sanchez, El Acercamiento Hispanico-Neerlandes (1648-1678) (Madrid: CSIC, 2000).
  • James D. Tracy, Europe's Reformations, 1450-1650 (Oxford: Rowman & Littlefield, 1999).
  • Robert Bireley, The Refashioning of Catholicism, 1450-1700: A Reassessment of the Counter Reformation (Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 1999).
  • Liisa Kanerva, Defining the Architect in Fifteenth-Century Italy (Helsinki: The Finnish Academy of Science and Letters, 1998).
  • Marilyn J. Westerkamp, Women and Religion in Early America, 1600-1850: The Puritan and Evangelical Traditions (London and New York: Routledge, 1999).
  • Leyla Rouhi, Meditation and Love: A Study of the Medieval Go-Between in Key Romance and Near-Eastern Texts (Leiden: Brill, 1999).
  • Sara Mendelson and Patricia Crawford, Women in Early Modern England 1550-1720 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999).