
Luis Geronimo De ore
The World of an Andean Franciscan from the Frontiers to the Centers of Power
Louisiana State University Press
Published on 6. December 2023
Book
Hardback
396 pages
978-0-8071-8012-9 (ISBN)
Description
Born in a provincial city in the Peruvian Andes, the Franciscan linguist and theologian Luis Geronimo de Ore (1554-1630) lived during a critical period in the formation of the modern world, as the global empire of Spain engaged in a nearly continuous struggle over resources and religion.
In the first full-length biography of Ore, Noble David Cook and Alexandra Parma Cook reconstruct the friar's life and the communities in which he circulated, tracing the career of this first-generation Creole from his roots in Huamanga to his work in Andean missions, his activities at the royal courts of Spain and throughout Spanish America, until his final years as bishop of Concepcion, Chile. While serving in Peru's Colca Valley, Ore composed multilingual texts, translating doctrinal concepts into the indigenous languages Quechua and Aymara, alongside Latin and Spanish, which missionaries and secular clergy frequently used in their conversion efforts. As commissioner to Cuba and La Florida, he inspected the frontier missions along the coast of what became the southeastern United States and wrote an influential history of these outposts and their environment. After Philip III dispatched him to Concepcion, Ore spent his last years working in the southernmost end of the Americas, where he continued his advocacy for indigenous justice and engaged in heated arguments with the governor over defensive war, royal patronage, and Indian enslavement.
Drawn from research conducted in Spain and Latin America over several decades, this consequential biography recovers from obscurity a colonial friar whose legacy continues in the Andean world today.
In the first full-length biography of Ore, Noble David Cook and Alexandra Parma Cook reconstruct the friar's life and the communities in which he circulated, tracing the career of this first-generation Creole from his roots in Huamanga to his work in Andean missions, his activities at the royal courts of Spain and throughout Spanish America, until his final years as bishop of Concepcion, Chile. While serving in Peru's Colca Valley, Ore composed multilingual texts, translating doctrinal concepts into the indigenous languages Quechua and Aymara, alongside Latin and Spanish, which missionaries and secular clergy frequently used in their conversion efforts. As commissioner to Cuba and La Florida, he inspected the frontier missions along the coast of what became the southeastern United States and wrote an influential history of these outposts and their environment. After Philip III dispatched him to Concepcion, Ore spent his last years working in the southernmost end of the Americas, where he continued his advocacy for indigenous justice and engaged in heated arguments with the governor over defensive war, royal patronage, and Indian enslavement.
Drawn from research conducted in Spain and Latin America over several decades, this consequential biography recovers from obscurity a colonial friar whose legacy continues in the Andean world today.
Reviews / Votes
A masterful history." - John Frederick Schwaller, author of The History of the Catholic Church in Latin America: From Conquest to Revolution and Beyond"Noble David Cook and Alexandra Parma Cook's study is methodologically rigorous and meticulously comprehensive, the result of decades-long research of Ore's publications and reports, the social milieus in which they were produced, and the actions of the renowned figures with whom Ore interacted." - John Charles, author of Allies at Odds: The Andean Church and Its Indigenous Agents, 1583-1671
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Language
English
Place of publication
Baton Rouge
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
With dust jacket
Illustrations
8 halftones, 5 maps
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
748 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8071-8012-9 (9780807180129)
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Alexandra Parma Cook | Noble David Cook
Luis Gerónimo de Oré
The World of an Andean Franciscan from the Frontiers to the Centers of Power
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12/2023
Zando - Hillman Grad Books
€19.49
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Persons
Noble David Cook is professor emeritus of history at Florida International University, and Alexandra Parma Cook is an independent scholar. The Cooks have worked together for more than fifty years and have coauthored several books, including The Plague Files: Crisis Management in Sixteenth-Century Seville.