La Conquistadora: The Virgin Mary at War and Peace in the Old and New Worlds
- ISBN-10
- 0199893004
- ISBN-13
- 9780199893003
- Series
- La Conquistadora
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 470
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2014-03
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Author
- Amy G. Remensnyder
Description
La Conquistadora explores Mary's prominence on and off the battlefield in the culturally and ethnically diverse world of medieval Iberia, where Muslims, Christians, and Jews lived side by side, and in colonial Mexico, where Spaniards and indigenous peoples mingled.
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- 2014-03
- 481 pages
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- 2010
- 112 pages
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