| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 290 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-279) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Epidemic disease and the rise of Christianity in Europe, 150-800 CE -- Rise of Christianity in the New World: the Jesuit missions of Colonial Mexico, 1591-1660 -- Relevance of Early Christian literature to missionaries in Colonial Latin America -- Conclusion. |
| Summary |
Plagues, Priests, and Demons is a comparative, interdisciplinary study of the rise of Christianity in the late Roman Empire and colonial Mexico. Analysis of early Christian and Spanish missionary texts reveals that epidemic disease undermined pre-Christian societies, encouraging pagan and Indian interest in new forms of social and religious life. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Jesuits -- Missions -- Mexico -- History.
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Jγ̐ưesuites -- Missions -- Mexico -- History.
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Jesuits. |
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Missions. |
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Mexico. |
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History. |
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Jésuites -- Missions -- Mexique -- Histoire. |
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Jesuiten. |
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Missions -- History -- Early church, ca. 30-600.
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Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.
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Communicable diseases -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History.
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Communicable diseases -- Religious aspects -- Christianity. |
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Mexico -- Church history.
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Church history. |
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Europe. |
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Mexico. |
| Chronological Term |
30 - 600 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Church history.
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History.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Reff, Daniel T., 1949- Plagues, priests, and demons. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005 0521840783 0521600502 (DLC) 2004045759 (OCoLC)54778554 |
| ISBN |
0511081006 (electronic book) |
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9780511081002 (electronic book) |
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0511121814 (electronic book) |
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9780511121814 (electronic book) |
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9780511511752 (electronic book) |
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0511511752 (electronic book) |
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9780511080241 (electronic book) |
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0511080247 (electronic book) |
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1280163216 |
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9781280163210 |
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0521840783 (Cloth) |
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0521600502 (Paper) |
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9780521840781 |
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9780521600507 |
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9786610163212 |
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6610163219 |
| Report No. |
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