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HIST 393 / REL 398 Approaches to History: Catholicisms in the Americas

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Some print primary source material avaialble in the Main and/or United libraries

  • Lettres édifiantes et curieuses, écrites des missions étrangères
    Paris, Chez J. G. Merigot, 1780-1783, Nouvelle édition.
    Language: French
    Available Online
    Location: Oak Grove Library Center, Off Site - Request Online(271.5 J581l )
    This 34 volume set contains correspondence of Jesuit missionaries describing their experiences in their travels all over the world. Volumes 6-9 focus on the Americas. The full text of this work is available at the Hathi Trust. One may want to search Hathi to identify volumes they need and request those volumes from Oak Grove.
  • Forgotten Franciscans : writings from an Inquisitional theorist, a heretic, and an Inquisitional deputy
    edited and translated by Martin Austin Nesvig.
    University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, ©2011
    Language: English
    Location: Main Library Core - 2 North (272.20972 F721 ) and Main Library Stacks (272.20972 F721 )
    This work contains translations of the writings of three Franciscan missionaries in Mexico during the 16th and 17th centuries.
  • General history of the things of New Spain; Florentine codex,
    translated from the Aztec into English, with notes and illus., by Arthur J. O. Anderson [and] Charles E. Dibble.
    Publisher: Santa Fe, N. M., School of American Research, 1951-1982
    Language: English, Aztec
    Available Online
    Location: Oak Grove Library Center, Off Site - Request Online (Large 972.01 S131g )
    A translation of the 13 volume history by Frnaciscan Bernardino de Sahagún that examines and chronicles the cultures he encountered in 16th century Mexico
  • History of the triumphs of our holy faith amongst the most barbarous and fierce peoples of the New World
    by Andrés Pérez de Ribas.
    Pérez de Ribas, Andrés, 1576-1655. Tucson : University of Arizona Press, ©1999
    Language: English
    Available Online.
    A translation of the Spanish work published in 1645 that was a history of Jesuit missions or northern Mexico from 1591 to 1643. The full text of this work is available at the Hathi Trust. One may want to search Hathi to identify volumes they need and request those volumes from Oak Grove.
  • Zumárraga and his family : letters to Vizcaya 1536-1548 : a collection of documents in relation to the founding of a hospice in his birthplace
    transcribed and introduced by Richard E. Greenleaf ; translated by Neal Kaveny.
    Zumárraga, Juan de, 1468-1548. Washington, D.C. : Academy of American Franciscan History, 1979
    Language: English
    Location: Oak Grove Library Center, Off Site - Request Online(282.72 Z94Z )
    This work contains translated correspondence of Juan de Zumárraga, the Franciscan Bishop of Mexico.
  • The Doctrina breve in fac-simile
    published in the city of Tenochtitlan, Mexico, June, 1544, by Right Rev. Juan Zumárraga, first bishop of Mexico. To which are added The earliest books in the New world, by Rev. Zephyrin Englehardt [!] and A technical appreciation of the first American printers, by Stephen H. Horgan, edited by Thomas F. Meehan.
    Zumárraga, Juan de, 1468-1548. New York, The United States Catholic historical society, 1928
    Language: English
    Location: Oak Grove Library Center, Off Site - Request Online(282.72 Z94do )

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