Deconstructing Conventual Franciscan Schools: Sixteenth-Century Architecture, Decoration, and Nahua Educational Spaces

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dc.contributor.advisorHaskett, Roberten_US
dc.contributor.authorFitzgerald, Joshuaen_US
dc.creatorFitzgerald, Joshuaen_US
dc.date.accessioned2012-10-26T04:03:44Z
dc.date.available2012-10-26T04:03:44Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.description.abstractIn the sixteenth century, during a process commonly called the “spiritual conquest,” evangelical priests refashioned Mesoamerican temples and schools into Christian churches and convents. Traditionally, scholars regarded this aspect of the Spanish Conquest as a top-down, foreigner-derived process of immediate cosmogenic transformation. Utilizing interdisciplinary methodologies and relying on Nahuatl voices, this thesis contributes to the recent scholarly effort to reinterpret spiritual conquest theory. This study compares and contrasts pre-contact and colonial schools, education techniques, and symbolic ornamentation in order to “read” the iconography and layout of the courtyard of the convent of San Andrés Calpan as a text. In the end, this thesis argues that visually-bilingual Nahua communities, using an existing architectural vernacular, created a nepantla or “a middle place” perfect for mutual misunderstandings and the persistence of local indigenous narratives alongside institutional Christian ones. Thus, Mesoamerican gods lived on in the very places designed to destroy them.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1794/12422
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Oregonen_US
dc.rightsAll Rights Reserved.en_US
dc.subjectColonial architectureen_US
dc.subjectFranciscan educationen_US
dc.subjectNahuasen_US
dc.subjectPuebla-Tlaxcala Valleyen_US
dc.subjectSan Andrés Calpanen_US
dc.subjectSpiritual Conquesten_US
dc.titleDeconstructing Conventual Franciscan Schools: Sixteenth-Century Architecture, Decoration, and Nahua Educational Spacesen_US
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertationen_US

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