Title: Baroque sovereignty
Description: "...Baroque Sovereignty locates the colonial Baroque at the crossroads of a conflicted Spanish imperial rule and the political imaginary of an emergent local elite. Arguing that Spanish imperialism was founded on an ideal of Christian conversion no longer applicable at the end of the seventeenth century, More discovers in Sigüenza y Góngora's works an alternative basis for local governance. The creole archive, understood as both the collection of local artifacts and their interpretation, solved the intractable problem of Spanish imperial sovereignty by establishing a material genealogy and authority for New Spain's creole elite." -- Book jacket.
Subjects: Baroque Civilization, Intellectual life, Library, Political and social views, Sources, Archives, Creoles, History, Siguenza y gongora, carlos de, 1645-1700, Civilization, baroque, Mexico, history, spanish colony, 1540-1810, Mexico, intellectual life, Political aspects
Places: Mexico
People: Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora (1645-1700)
Time periods: 17th century, Spanish colony, 1540-1810