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Murder in Mérida, 1792

Violence, Factions, and the Law

By: Mark W. Lentz

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Murder in Mérida, 1792

Violence, Factions, and the Law

By: Mark W. Lentz

During the summer of 1792, a man wearing the rough garb of a vaquero stepped out of the night shadows of Mérida, Yucatan, and murdered the province’s top royal official, don Lucas de Gálvez. This book recounts the mystery of the Gálvez murder and its resolution, an event that captured contemporaries’ imaginations throughout the Hispanic world and caused consternation on the part of authorities in both Mexico and Madrid. In this work Lentz further provides a readable introduction to the Bourbon Reforms as well as new insights on late colonial Yucatecan society through the vast depictions of the cross-section of Yucatecan people questioned during the decade it took to uncover the assassin’s identity. These suspects and witnesses, from all walks of life, reveal the interconnected layers found in colonial Yucatecan society and the social networks of Mérida’s urban underclass as well as their unexpected ties to the creole elites and rural Mayas that have previously been unexplored.

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University of New Mexico Press

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0826359620

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9780826359629

Echoes of a Forgotten Presence

Reconstructing the History of the Church of the East in Central Asia

By: Mark Dickens

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Echoes of a Forgotten Presence

Reconstructing the History of the Church of the East in Central Asia

By: Mark Dickens

This volume is a collection of ten articles published between 2009 and 2016 by Mark Dickens on the Assyrian Church of the East in Central Asia, along with a new article on Mar Yahbalaha III, the only Turkic patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East. Most articles deal with the textual evidence for Syriac Christianity in Central Asia, including six on Christian manuscript fragments from Turfan (China) and two on gravestone inscriptions from Semirechye (Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan). As the volume title indicates, these articles remind us of the centuries-long presence of the Assyrian Church of the East at the centre of the Asian continent, now all but forgotten due to the general scarcity of sources from which this history can be reconstructed.

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LIT Verlag Münster

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3643911033

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Murder in Mérida, 1792

Violence, Factions, and the Law

By: Mark W. Lentz

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Violence, Factions, and the Law

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Murder in Mérida, 1792

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