Inventories of Ruin by J Michelle Molina PAPERBACK 9781531512293

Name: Inventories of Ruin by J Michelle Molina PAPERBACK 9781531512293
Brand: Fordham University Press

Fordham University Press

An innovative historical analysis that draws upon performance and theatre studies to stage the ruination and demise of the eighteenth-century Mexican Jesuits Inventories of Ruin dramatizes the ruination of the Mexican Province of the Society of Jesus as their power and influence waned over a period of approximately fifty years in the eighteenth-century Spanish Atlantic world. To tell the story of the arrest, migration, and ultimate dissolution of this powerful organization of missionary men, three sets of \""inventories\"" are juxtaposed. The first is composed by notaries, who record the objects left behind by the Jesuits at a college in Puebla de Los Angeles when they were arrested on June 25, 1767. The second is an \""inventory of the self,\"" a conversion narrative composed by a Swedish convert\n\nInventories of Ruin\nThe Demise of the Mexican Jesuits, in Three Acts\nFree UK delivery on this item.\n\nThis brand new item is available with free UK delivery using Royal Mail tracked servi;