...This book brings together medieval Iberia, colonial Mexico, and colonial New Mexico through the largely unexplored history of the Virgin Mary as a figure of warfare and cross-cultural encounter. Beginning around 1000, Mary was drawn into warfare between Muslims and Christians in Iberia, emerging...

...This chapter examines the case of Doña Teresa de Aguilera y Roche, the wife of colonial New Mexico’s governor, Don Bernardo López de Mendizábal, who was jailed by the Holy Office of the Inquisition in the seventeenth century. How she became entangled in the web of the Holy Office of the Inquisition...