SPN 455 RELIGION, IDOLATRY AND CONQUEST: FROM MEDIEVAL SPAIN TO THE NEW WORLD
Early modern Spain provided the framework for some major changes: the interaction of three cultures in the same territory, the establishing of an empire, the discovery of America, and the attempt to create an international hegemony under the shadow of one religion. The main purpose of this course is to provide students with a general perspective of the issues developing in imperial Spain and surrounding the conquest of America. Students will read about problems of colonization, as well as about the creation of otherness, and the emergence of indigenous resistance in the context of the creation of imperial hegemony in Spain.
Prerequisite
two courses at the upper 300-level (numbered SPN 350-399).
Notes
Taught in Spanish.