Visions, Prophecies and Divinations : Early Modern Messianism and Millenarianism in Iberian America, Spain and Portugal.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- List of Contributors -- An Introduction to the Messianisms and Millenarianisms of Early-Modern Iberian America, Spain, and Portugal -- Luís Filipe Silvério Lima and Ana Paula Torres Megiani -- Part 1 -- The Americas: Between Missionary Projects and Native Prophecies -- Chapter 1 -- Amerindian Cosmologies and Histories in New Spain and Peru: Appropriations and Redimensioning of Christian Concepts by the Nahua, Mayan, and Andean Elites -- Eduardo Natalino dos Santos -- Chapter 2 -- Mozas Criollas and New Government: Francis Borgia, Prophetism, and the Spiritual Exercises in Spain and Peru -- Stefania Pastore -- Chapter 3 -- The Missionary Roots of Rural Messianic Movements: Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries -- Cristina Pompa -- Part 2 -- Prophetical Trajectories and Inquisition Trials -- Chapter 4 -- The Wizard of the Five-color Rosary: Occurrence and Astrology, History, and Politics in the Cause of Juan Serrada, Arrested by the Inquisition in Zaragoza (1648) -- Marcos Antonio Lopes Veiga -- Chapter 5 -- Between Prophecy and Politics: The Return to Portugal of Dom Antônio, Prior of Crato, and the Early Years of the Iberian Union -- Jacqueline Hermann -- Chapter 6 -- The Devil in the Court of the King: Popular Prophecy and the Inquisition in Seventeenth-century Portugal -- Mark Cooper Emerson -- Part 3 -- Between Sebastianism and Fifth Empire: Lettered Culture and the Portuguese Empire -- Chapter 7 -- A Portuguese Jewish Agent of the Philips and a Sebastianist: The Strange Case of Rosales/Manuel Bocarro -- Francisco Moreno-Carvalho -- Chapter 8 -- From Politics to Prophecies: Portuguese Resistance and the Prophetic Arsenal at the Time of King Philip of Spain -- João Carlos Gonçalves Serafim -- Chapter 9 -- In Defense of Prophecy: The Inquisitorial Proceeding of Father Antônio Vieira.

Marcus De Martini -- Chapter 10 -- Vieira Between History of the Future and Clavis Prophetarum -- Ana T. Valdez -- Bibliography -- Index.

One of the first English-language collections of essays dedicated to the millenarianism in the early modern Iberian world, Visions, Prophecies and Divinations offers an introduction to the complex phenomena of prophecy and vision in Spanish and Portuguese Empires.

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