Conflict and conversion in sixteenth century central Mexico : the Augustinian war on and beyond the Chichimeca frontier / / by Robert H. Jackson.

• Superior document: European Expansion and Indigenous Response ; Volume 12
• Author: Jackson, Robert H.
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: European expansion and indigenous response ; Volume 12.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (283 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9004251219
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: by Robert H. Jackson.

In the sixteenth century Franciscan, Dominican, and Augustinian missionaries attempted to convert the native populations of central Mexico. The native peoples generally viewed the new religion in terms very different from that of the missionaries. As conflict broke out after 1550 as Spaniards invaded the Chichimeca frontier (the frontier between sedentary and nomadic natives), the missionaries faced new challenges on both sides of the frontier. Some sedentary natives resisted evangelization, and the missionaries saw themselves in a war against Satan and his minions. The Augustinians assumed a pivotal role in the evangelization campaign on both sides of the Chichimeca frontier, and employed different methods in the effort to convince the natives to embrace the new faith and to defeat Satan’s designs. They used graphic visual aids and the threat of an eternity of suffering in hell to bring recalcitrant natives, such as the Otomi of the Mezquital Valley, into the folded.