Books by Alejandra B Osorio
Chapters and Articles by Alejandra B Osorio
l Palazzo Reale di Napoli nel contesto globale. Le residenze dei viceré e dei governatori nel sistema della monarchia ispanica, ed. Bianca de Divitiis (Quaderni di Palazzo Reale, 4). Naples, Editori Paparo, pp. 22-26., 2024
Le residenze dei viceré e dei governatori nel sistema della monarchia ispanica a cura di Bianca d... more Le residenze dei viceré e dei governatori nel sistema della monarchia ispanica a cura di Bianca de Divitiis
Las noblezas de la monarquía de España (1556-1725), 2024
Espacio, tiempo y forma, 2023
Generalmente se acepta que las cortes virreinales funcionaban como extensiones o «espejos» de la ... more Generalmente se acepta que las cortes virreinales funcionaban como extensiones o «espejos» de la corte real de Madrid, y que, en teoría, aunque no siempre en la práctica, el virrey era el alter ego del rey. También se ha sugerido que la virreina se entendía como un reflejo de la reina, constituyendo el centro de un sistema cultural y religioso autónomo con poderes auxiliares o secundarios a los del virrey. Las cortes virreinales, por lo tanto, se estudian principalmente como espacios de poder político masculino. El análisis de la participación de las virreinas y de las mujeres nobles en la cultural política de los Austrias españoles desafía nociones de su poder cómo informal y secundario 2 .
Archiv für Religionsgeschichte 25, 2023
From their very foundations religion was intrinsic to the shape and composition of Spanish Americ... more From their very foundations religion was intrinsic to the shape and composition of Spanish American cities. These urban spaces were politically constituted through new governing techniques and exercise of monarchical rule articulated in elaborate ceremonial regimes organized around the figure of the Spanish king and Catholic religious rituals. In the sixteenth century the piety of the monarch constituted the foundation of good government, and piety and Christian virtues were the foundations of sovereign rule (Coreth 2004, 1). The defeat by the Trastámaran dynasty of the Caliphate of Granada in 1492, and the election of Charles I king of Spain as Holy Roman Emperor in 1519, made imagining a universal Christian empire possible. Seen as the direct successor of the Roman emperors of antiquity, the Holy Roman Emperor, as the counterpart of the pope in Rome, held an authority superior to all other monarchs, akin to a king of kings. As king of Spain, in 1516 Charles I inherited the New World kingdoms, and with his election in 1519 as Holy Roman Emperor Charles V became the first Habsburg to rule the world, allowing not only to envision a truly unified world by Catholicism, but also his dynasty as true Lords of All the World (Rady 2020, 63-74; Pagden 1995, 11-62; Yates 1975, 25-27).¹ The Royal Patronage of the New World Church, which in 1501 Pope Alexander VI granted to the Spanish monarchy, with rights to the Church tithes from the Indies to finance their evangelization, further reinforced the idea of a unified world in Catholicism under the dominion of the Spanish Habsburg monarch.² With the discovery of the New World (ca. 1492) and the conquest of the Aztec empire (ca. 1519), the conversion to Catholicism of the inhabitants of the new continent became a paramount objective of the Spanish Habsburg monarchy. Through most of the sixteenth century, the organization of the New World Church and the conversion of its indigenous populations was carried out by mendicant orders (Melvin 2012). These conversions were achieved through education of Catholic principles and dogma imparted in the missions and Indian towns (reducciones) where indigenous peoples were relocated to facilitate their Christian faith instruction. Catholic teachings also included music, in some cases Latin, and other arts, as well as continuous participation 1 See Tanner 2018 and 1993. 2 In 1508, Pope Julius II in the bull Universalis ecclesiae, granted Ferdinand and Isabella and their successors the right to propose to Rome candidates from archbishops downward for churches in the Indies. This also gave rights to the monarchy to oversee the building and endowment of cathedrals, churches, monasteries, and hospitals, which were all financed by the tithes collected in the American possessions. In 1538 with the Bull Sublime Deus, the crown further claimed the rights to inspection, with veto power, over all papal dispatches to the Indies. After the creation in 1524 of the Royal Council of the Indies, the running of the Royal Patronage fell under its jurisdiction.
Culture and History, 2022
In his Libro Histórico Político, Solo Madrid es Corte (1658), the royal chronicler Alonso Núñez d... more In his Libro Histórico Político, Solo Madrid es Corte (1658), the royal chronicler Alonso Núñez de Castro, de ned Court as the head that governs; where reason and the king (as head of his kingdoms) his councilors, vassals, and other important men reside. Núñez, emphasized Madrid's population, listed its councils and described their functions, in detail explained the etiquette observed around the King' body, and included the hierarchy of all his kingdoms and provinces in the Spanish Habsburg empire, offering detailed accounts of their nances and contributions to the royal treasure. The work, in fact, established the imperial space (and geography) of the larger Spanish Habsburg political body, with Madrid as its courtly and political-cultural head. In its structure and arguments, Núñez's work followed principles established at the end of the 16 th century by Giovanni Botero as characteristic of a great city and in works describing the greatness of Lima and of the city of Mexico. A comparison of Madrid with other courtly cities of the Spanish Habsburg Empire helps elucidate reasons for its low pro le as referent in the documentation of the New World, despite its place after 1561, as the political-administrative head of the empire.
El mundo cultural y artístico de las mujeres en la Edad Moderna (s. XVI), Esther Alegre Carvajal (editor) , 2021
El mundo cultural y artistico de las mujeres en la edad moderna (s. XVI), Esther Alegre Carvajal (ed.) , 2021
Apariencia y razón. Las artes y la arquitectura en el reinado de Felipe III, 2020
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Books by Alejandra B Osorio
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