“Confused, but not a Coward”: The Grammar of Power in a Baroque Wonder in Colonial Arequipa

Martínez C.F.S. · Memoria y Civilizacion (2022) · DOI: 10.15581/001.25.048

Resumen

In this article the function of wonders and prodigies in Suelo de Arequipa convertido en cielo (ca. 1750) by the Colonial historian Ventura Travada (1695-1758) will be studied, aiming to reveal the grammar of power behind an extraordinary episode, key to understand the complexity of political relations in an emerging city in Colonial Peru.

Instituciones: Universidad Nacional de San Agustín de Arequipa