Gerónimo de Mendieta
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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 that recounts the history of evangelization in the colony of New Spain in the Americas.
[edit] References
- Crivelli, Camillus. (1911). "Jerónimo Mendieta". The Catholic Encyclopedia (New Advent online reproduction) vol. X. New York: Robert Appleton and Company. Retrieved on 2007-01-30.
- Phelan, John Leddy [1956] (1970). The Millennial Kingdom of the Franciscans in the New World: A Study of the Writings of Gerónimo de Mendieta (1525-1604), 2nd edition, revised. ISBN 0520014049. OCLC 88926.
- Martínez, Jose Luis (1980). "Gerónimo de Mendieta". Estudios de Cultura Nahuatl, UNAM, Mexico 14: pp.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): pp.360–376. DOI:10.1111/1477-4658.00124.
- Washburn, Wilcomb E. (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". The William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd Series 15 (3): pp.404–406. DOI:10.2307/1915640.