Between the Heart of Christ and the Heart of Mary -- Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra

The Music Department invites you to a talk by

Professor Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra
Alice Drysdale Sheffield Professor of History
Department of History, University of Texas.

Respondent:
Susan Boynton
The Music Department, Columbia University.

April 9, Dodge Hall 622, 4 pm

Between the Heart of Christ and the Heart of Mary:
The Global Jesuit Mission in Quito ca. 1750.

The paper offers a typological reading of a 17th-18th century Jesuit church in Quito (Ecuador). It demonstrates that the façade, chapels, altars, and images in the temple were originally organized around a typological reading of the Apostles Peter and Paul as prefigurations, on the one hand, of the Petrine, institutional, masculine, Christological, Roman side of the order and, on the other, of the Pauline, global, feminine, Marian, missionary dimension. Typology readings of the Old and New Testament (prefiguration- fulfillment) helped organize the layout of cities, temples, and colonial institutions throughout the Monarquía de España. In short, typology as a reading technique and as a historiographical sensibility was central to the global expansion of early modern Catholicism.

Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra is the Alice Drysdale Sheffield Professor  of  history at the Department of History at the University of Texas  at  Austin. His areas of specialty are Early Modern Atlantic  History;  History of Science and Colonialism; History of Knowledge;  Colonial  Spanish and British America. He is author of Nature, Empire and Nation: Explorations of the History of Science in the  Iberian World (2006); The Atlantic in Global History: 1500-2000 (2007); How to Write the History of the New World: Histories, Epistemologies, and  Identities in the  Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World (2001); Puritan Conquistadors: Iberianizing  the Atlantic, 1550-1700 (2006). His Book How to Write the History of the New World earned the Atlantic History Book Prize of the American Historical Association, the John Edwin Fagg Book Prize on Spanish and Latin American History and was cited among the best books by the Economist in 2001.  Puritan Conquistadors won the Biannual Mundo MacLeod Book Prize of The Latin American and Caribbean Section of the Southern Historical Association.

Susan Boynton is an Associate Professor in the Music Department at Columbia University.  Her book, Shaping a Monastic Identity: Liturgy and History at the Imperial Abbey of Farfa, 1000-1125 (2006), won the Lewis Lockwood Award of the American Musicological Society. With the historian Isabelle Cochelin, she is general editor of the interdisciplinary series Disciplina Monastica: Studies on Medieval Monastic Life/Etudes sur la vie monastique au moyen age (Brepols Publishers). Her forthcoming book, Silent Music: Medieval Song and the Construction of History in Eighteenth-Century Spain, will be published by Oxford University Press.