Dos epístolas latinas de fray Juan de Zumárraga y Juan Bernal Díaz de Luco sobre la evangelización del Nuevo Mundo // Two Latin Epistles by Fray Juan de Zumárraga and Juan Bernal Díaz del Castillo on the Evangelization of the New World

Authors

Víctor Lillo Castañ, Universität TrierFollow
Laura Camino Plaza, Universidade de Santiago de CompostelaFollow

DOI

https://doi.org/10.7275/Q1MC-BE02

Keywords

Colonization, slavery, evangelization, Colonial Mexico, fray Juan de Zumárraga, Juan Bernal Díaz de Luco

Abstract

This article presents an edition and the first ever translation into Spanish of two Latin epistles on the evangelization of the New World by Juan de Zumárraga and Juan Bernal Díaz de Luco. These epistles have survived in a sole copy, currently kept at the Biblioteca Capitular y Colombina de Sevilla, that was probably printed in 1533. The article also offers a succinct historical context for both letters and sketches a circle of reformist Catholics, of which Zumárraga and Luco partook during the 1530s, who were concerned about the well-being and the evangelization of the indigenous peoples of the Americas.

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