A Companion to Viceregal Mexico City, 1519-1821

Contents
Figures and Tables
Archival and Image Repositories
Notes on the Contributors
Acknowledgements
Viceregal Mexico City, Colonial Cosmopolitanism, and the Hispanic World
1 History and Society
2 Religious Life
3 Institutions
4 Special Themes
5 The Arts
Bibliography
Primary Sources
Secondary Literature
Part1: History and Society
1. Fear, Wonder, and Absence
1 The Conquistador Lens
2 Fear and Wonder
3 Absence
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2. The Weirdest of All?
1 Indians and Cities
2 Between Civilization and Nature
3 A Paradoxical Decline
4 Making the City
5 Becoming Cosmopolitan
6 The Three-Headed City
7 Concrete Coloniality, Awkward Cosmpolitanism
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3. Blackness and Blurred Boundaries in Mexico City
1 Afro-Mexicans in Mexico City and the Viceroyalty
2 Connecting and Identifying through Healing
3 Church-Based Practices and Networks
4 Spanish Anxieties and Limitations on Afro-Mexican Opportunities
5 Conclusion
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4. Of Pleasures and Proscriptions
1 Birth and Childhood
2 Courtship and Couples
3 Families and Households
4 Gender, Sexuality, and Family
5 Conclusion
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5. War, Legitimacy, and Ceremony in 18th-Century Mexico City
1 The Inauguration of Military Honors for Soldiers
2 Legitimizing the Bourbon Succession
3 Ceremony and Bourbon Absolutism in the 1760s
4 Conclusion
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Part 2: Religious Life
6. City of Friars, City of Archbishops
1 The Struggle to Occupy Urban Space: The 16th-Century City
2 The Religious Orders and the Initial Planning of the City, 1523–1554
3 The Clash Between Two Church Projects for the City: The Archbishop vs. The Monasteries, 1555–1570
4 Introduction of the Episcopal Model: New Religious Orders and New Convents, 1571–1600
5 The Ecclesiastical Institutions in the Baroque City, 1600–1700
6 Baroque Bishops and the Founding of Religious Institutions
7 The City of Friars and Jesuits
8 Epilogue
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7. The Cabildo of Mexico City, Patron Saints, and the Making of Local and Imperial Identities
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8. Visualizing Corporate Piety
1 Memory, History, Historiography: The Hospital de Jesús and the Scuola Grande
2 Performing Identity: Membership Books and Patents
3 Collective Devotion, Seeing Together
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9. Permanence and Change in Mexico City’s Viceregal Court, 1535–1821
1 Inventing Court
2 The Court and Its Social and Urban Setting
3 New Viceroys for a New Dynasty
4 From the Old Court to a New One
5 Enlightened Leaders
6 The Empty Throne
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10. Finance and Credit in Viceregal Mexico City
1 Credit in Mexico City
2 Mercantile Credit
3 The Church Institutions and Credit
4 The Convents
5 The Chaplaincies
6 The Confraternities
7 The Inquisition
8 The Monte de Piedad
9 The Banco de Avío Minero
10 The End of an Epoch
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11. Uneven Chances
1 The Head of the Kingdom
2 Educating the Indigenous Population: Maceguales and Lords
3 The World of the Criollos
4 Education and Bourbon Reforms
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12. Medicine and Municipal Rights in Viceregal Mexico City
1 Introduction
2 The Castilian Protomedicato: Establishment, Practice, and Jurisdiction
3 Reconquest Iberia: Aragón and Castile
4 Persistance of Medieval Fuero Limitations
5 The Protomedicato of New Spain: Regulation in the Capital
6 The Royal Protomedicato in the 18th Century: Increasing Jurisdiction and Authority
7 Effects in New Spain: Increasing Privileges, Increasing Municipal Challenges
8 Conclusion
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Part 4: Special Themes
13. The Urban Plans of Mexico City, 1520–1810
1 Introduction
2 Plans and the Multi-ethnic Population
3 Indigenous Foundations
4 Early Hybrids
5 Mapping the Desagüe
6 Mapping Reform Proposals of the 18th Century
7 The City in Printed Form
8 The Plans of Mexico City’s Past
9 Conclusion
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14. The Desagüe’s Watermark
1 A City Aflood
2 Mapping Nature’s Character
3 “The Geometrization of Space”
4 The Talisman of Martínez’ Authority
5 Rupturing the Bond Between City and Water
6 Conclusion
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15. Urban Science in 18th-Century Mexico City
1 Venus, the Sun, and Mexico City
2 Natural Order, Urban Order
3 Science in the Streets
4 Urban Expertise
5 Conclusions
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16. A Culture of Print in Viceregal Mexico City
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17. Novohispanic Baroque Poetry
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18. Music and Literature in New Spain
1 Introduction
2 Buen Gusto
3 Buen Gusto, the Noble Arts, and the Quest for Social Status
4 Conclusion
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19. The Royal Academy of San Carlos, 1781–1800
1 Founding the Royal Academy of San Carlos
2 An Institution of the Bourbon Reforms
3 Arrival of Gerónimo Antonio Gil
4 The Royal Academy of San Carlos
5 Teaching Neo-Classicism: Discourse, Text, and Objects
5.1 Discourse
5.2 Text
5.3 Objects
6 Experiencing Fine Art and Bourbon Imperialism
7 Students
8 Administrators and Faculty
9 Power and Presence
10 The Equestrian Monument of Charles IV
11 Conclusion
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Index