Gerónimo de Mendieta
Fray Gerónimo de Mendieta (1525–1604), alternatively Jerónimo de Mendieta, was a
Franciscan missionary and historian, who spent most of his life in the Spanish Empire's new possessions in Mexico and Central America
.
His main work is the Historia eclesiástica indiana, written in the late sixteenth century, but not published until 1870 by
the Americas
and abuses of the indigenous by Spanish civil society.
Biography
Gerónimo de Mendieta was born in
Tochimilco where he was taught the local Nahuatl language. He was later moved to Tlaxcala where he became a friend of fellow Franciscan Toribio de Benavente "Motolinia".[1] "Mendieta learned Nahuatl from Motolinia," and Motolina's optimism about indigenous conversion influenced Mendieta.[2]
He returned to the
Joachimite ideas,[5] and it was only published for the first time in 1870, when it was brought to light by Joaquín García Icazbalceta
.
Notes
Further reading
- Crivelli, Camillus (1911). "Jerónimo Mendieta". The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. X (New Advent online reproduction ed.). New York: Robert Appleton and Company. Retrieved 2007-01-30.
- Díaz Balsera, Viviana. "Historia eclesiástica indiana or Writing the Crisis of Providentialism", chapter 9 of The Pyramid under the Cross: Franciscan Discourses of Evangelization and the Nahua Christian Subject in Sixteenth-Century Mexico. Tucson: University of Arizona Press 2005.
- OCLC 88926.
- Martínez, Jose Luis (1980). "Gerónimo de Mendieta". Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl. 14. Mexico D.F.: UNAM: 131–197.
- Reinhard, Wolfgang (1992). "Missionaries, Humanists and Natives in the Sixteenth-Century Spanish Indies - a Failed Encounter of Two Worlds?". Renaissance Studies. 6 (3–4): 360–376. .
- Washburn, Wilcomb E.; Phelan, John Leddy (July 1958). "Review of The Millennial Kingdom of the Franciscans in the New World: A Study of the Writings of Gerónimo de Mendieta (1525-1604) by John Leddy Phelan". JSTOR 1915640.
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