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082	1		_aLAS 972.02 WEC _2
100	1		_aWeckmann Muñoz, Luis _d(1923-1995)
245	1	0	_aThe Medieval Heritage of Mexico _c/ Luis Muñoz Weckmann
260			_aNew York _b: Fordham University Press _c, 1992
300			_a692 p. _c; 25 cm
520			_aThe Medieval Heritage of Mexico is the result of more than thirty years' intensive research. This work examines, more thoroughly than any other, the medieval legacy that influences life in Spanish-speaking North America to the present day. Focusing on the period from 1517--the expedition of Hernandez de Cordoba--to the middle of the seventeenth century, Weckmann describes how explorers, administrators, judges, and clergy introduced to the New World a culture that was essentially medieval. This culture was, in some respects, a flowering--a rebirth, even--of the ideals and institutions of medieval Europe, at a time when Europe itself was in the throes of the religious, political, and cultural upheavals of the early modern period. That the transplanted culture differentiated itself from that of Spain is due to the resistance of the indigenous cultures of Mexico.
546			_aTranslated from the Spanish to English
650		4	_aCivilization, Medieval
650		4	_aExpeditions _z-Spain _z-Mexico
651		4	_aMexico _x-Medieval
651		4	_aMexico _x-History _x-Spanish colony _y-1540-1810
651		4	_aMexico _x-Civilization _x-Medieval influences
700	1		_aLópez-Morillas, Frances M.
942			_cLAS
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