AsunciÓn Lavrin is professor emerita of history at Arizona State University. She is the author or editor of many books, including Brides of Christ: Conventional Life in Colonial Mexico; Women, Feminism, and Social Change: Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay, 1890–1940 (Nebraska, 1998); and Sexuality and Marriage in Colonial Latin America (Nebraska, 1992).

“Lavrin’s comparative focus on the three mendicant orders and the breadth of her chronological coverage combined with her internal focus on the gendered nature of the development of mendicant masculinities is unique and revisionist in the historiography. Men of God is truly a magnum opus in advancing our understanding of the mentality and alternate masculinity to which all the mendicant friars aspired.”-John F. Chuchiak IV, author of The Inquisition in New Spain, 1536–1820: A Documentary History “An erudite, elegantly constructed study of friars in colonial Mexico offering an innovative way to think about friars, not necessarily as political actors or proto-ethnographers or agents of global triumphalist Catholicism. Men of God demystifies friars, who are often treated as larger than life in the scholarly corpus.”-Martin Austin Nesvig, author of Forgotten Franciscans: Works from an Inquisitional Theorist, a Heretic, and an Inquisitional Deputy

AsunciÓn Lavrin is professor emerita of history at Arizona State University. She is the author or editor of many books, including Brides of Christ: Conventional Life in Colonial Mexico; Women, Feminism, and Social Change: Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay, 1890–1940 (Nebraska, 1998); and Sexuality and Marriage in Colonial Latin America (Nebraska, 1992).

“Lavrin’s comparative focus on the three mendicant orders and the breadth of her chronological coverage combined with her internal focus on the gendered nature of the development of mendicant masculinities is unique and revisionist in the historiography. Men of God is truly a magnum opus in advancing our understanding of the mentality and alternate masculinity to which all the mendicant friars aspired.”-John F. Chuchiak IV, author of The Inquisition in New Spain, 1536–1820: A Documentary History “An erudite, elegantly constructed study of friars in colonial Mexico offering an innovative way to think about friars, not necessarily as political actors or proto-ethnographers or agents of global triumphalist Catholicism. Men of God demystifies friars, who are often treated as larger than life in the scholarly corpus.”-Martin Austin Nesvig, author of Forgotten Franciscans: Works from an Inquisitional Theorist, a Heretic, and an Inquisitional Deputy

AsunciÓn Lavrin is professor emerita of history at Arizona State University. She is the author or editor of many books, including Brides of Christ: Conventional Life in Colonial Mexico; Women, Feminism, and Social Change: Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay, 1890–1940 (Nebraska, 1998); and Sexuality and Marriage in Colonial Latin America (Nebraska, 1992).

“Lavrin’s comparative focus on the three mendicant orders and the breadth of her chronological coverage combined with her internal focus on the gendered nature of the development of mendicant masculinities is unique and revisionist in the historiography. Men of God is truly a magnum opus in advancing our understanding of the mentality and alternate masculinity to which all the mendicant friars aspired.”-John F. Chuchiak IV, author of The Inquisition in New Spain, 1536–1820: A Documentary History “An erudite, elegantly constructed study of friars in colonial Mexico offering an innovative way to think about friars, not necessarily as political actors or proto-ethnographers or agents of global triumphalist Catholicism. Men of God demystifies friars, who are often treated as larger than life in the scholarly corpus.”-Martin Austin Nesvig, author of Forgotten Franciscans: Works from an Inquisitional Theorist, a Heretic, and an Inquisitional Deputy