Dominicans in the Americas and the Philippines (c. 1500–c. 1820)

David T. Orique, O.P., PhD, is Professor of History at Providence College. His publications include To Heaven or to Hell: Bartolomé de Las Casas’s Confesionario (2018) and The Unheard Voice of Law from the Often-Heard Text: A New Rendition of Bartolomé de Las Casas’s Brevísima relación de la destruición de las Indias (2021).Rady Roldán-Figueroa, ThD, is Professor of the History of Christianity at Boston University. His publications include The Ascetic Spirituality of Juan de Avila (1499-1569) (2010) and The Martyrs of Japan: Publication History and Catholic Missions in the Spanish World (Spain, New Spain, and the Philippines, 1597–1700) (2021).Cynthia Folquer, O.P., PhD, is Professor of History at the Universidad Católica Argentina and Director of the Revista Itinerantes, de Historia y Religión. She has published books on religious history and is a founding member of networks and associations for the study of the Order of Preachers.

• IntroductionDavid Orique, O.P., Rady Roldán-Figueroa, and Cynthia Folquer, O.P.Chapter 1. Historiography of the Dominicans in the AmericasDavid Orique, O.P., Rady Roldán-Figueroa, and Cynthia Folquer, O.P. Part I. Women and the Order of PreachersChapter 2. The Historical Evolution of Santa Rosa de Lima’s Nine Miracles (1586-1617). Stephen HartChapter 3. Beatas and Friars in the Origins of Dominican Life in the New Kingdom of Granada: Interpreting a Relationship Model (ca.1586–ca.1676).Sofía Brizuela MolinaChapter 4. A Dominican Reading of the Religious and Social Experience of María Antonia de San José (1730-1799): A Funeral Sermon by Fr. Julian Perdriel, O.P.Alicia FraschinaChapter 5. Maidens Consecrated to Christ: The Monasterio de Santa Inés de Montepulcianoin Colonial Santa Fe de Bogotá.Oscar LondoñoChapter 6. Saint Rosa de Lima and the Spanish Monarchy: A Spanish Sainthood Model, 1668–1737.Ybeth Arias CubaPart II. “Benditos Bienes”: Libraries and Material PatrimonyChapter 7. Ortelius, La Justina, some Arts of Teeth, and other Elegant Phrases: The Books in the Library of the Convento Imperial de Santo Domingo de México.Idalia GarcíaChapter 8. Blessed Goods: The Material Patrimony of the Order of Preachers in ColonialBuenos Aires.Gabriela QuirogaChapter 9. Books for the Dominican Convent of Lima in 1594: The Formation of a Dominican Library.Pedro Rueda RamírezChapter 10. Imperialism and Print: Dominican Libraries in the Cagayan Valley,Philippines, 1661.Matthew J.K. HillPart III. Missions, Devotional and Daily LifeChapter 11. Saint Martín de Porres and the Meanings of African Descent in Colonial Lima.Celia CussenChapter 12. The Cofradía del Santísimo Rosario of the Order of Preachers of Tucumán:Composition, Links, and Corporate Issues (1791–1809).Estela CalventeChapter 13. Beneficence and Charity in the Dominican Third Order: The Case of ManuelRodríguez de la Vega and the Lay Apostolate in Late Colonial Buenos Aires.Lucrecia JijenaChapter 14. The Historiography of the 1586 Miracle of Chiquinquirá and its Rosary-RelatedHistoriographic Context in New Granada, 1555–1588.Eugenio Torres Torres, O.P.Chapter 15. The Order of Friar Preachers and their Mode of Building-Up the EarlyEvangelization of Southern Mexico.Mark Wedig, O.P.Part IV. The Order of Preachers and their WritingsChapter 16. Chronotope in the Text of Friar Gaspar de Carvajal’s Relación del nuevodescubrimiento del famoso río Grande de las Amazonas.Marta GonzalezChapter 17. Contemplating Bats and Bees: Mayan Languages, Empiricism, and the Popol Vuh in Friar Francisco Ximénez's La Historia Natural del Reino deGuatemala (1722).Randall Meissen, L.C.Chapter 18. “Unfreedom” and Francisco de Vitoria’s s De potestate civili.John Pollock-ParkerChapter 19. Friar Ramón Casaus Torres y las Plazas, O.P. and his Sermons, 1794–1808. Serigo Rosas Salas