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gerónimo de mendieta wikipedia jump to content main menu main menu move to sidebar hide navigation main page contents current events random article about wikipedia contact us contribute help learn to edit community portal recent changes upload file special pages search search appearance donate create account log in personal tools donate create account log in contents move to sidebar hide top 1 biography 2 notes 3 further reading toggle the table of contents gerónimo de mendieta 9 languages مصرى català deutsch español euskara français nāhuatl polski português edit links article talk english read edit view history tools tools move to sidebar hide actions read edit view history general what links here related changes upload file permanent link page information cite this page get shortened url switch to legacy parser print export download as pdf printable version in other projects wikidata item appearance move to sidebar hide from wikipedia the free encyclopedia spanish franciscan missionary and historian fray gerónimo de mendieta 1525 1604 alternatively jerónimo de mendieta was a franciscan missionary and historian who spent most of his life in the spanish empire s new possessions in mexico and central america his main work is the historia eclesiástica indiana 1 written in the late sixteenth century but not published until 1870 by joaquín garcía icazbalceta which recounts the history of franciscan evangelization in the colony of new spain in the americas and abuses of the indigenous by spanish civil society biography edit gerónimo de mendieta was born in vitoria álava in the basque country of spain in 1525 when he was twenty years old he entered the franciscan order in bilbao in 1554 he traveled to new spain to live in tochimilco where he was taught the local nahuatl language he was later moved to tlaxcala where he became a friend of fellow franciscan toribio de benavente motolinia 2 mendieta learned nahuatl from motolinia and motolina s optimism about indigenous conversion influenced mendieta 3 he returned to the iberian peninsula in 1570 bringing with him the first copies of the works of bernardino de sahagún to the spanish authorities 4 he returned to mexico again in 1573 this time never to return to europe he returned under order to compose a history of the work of evangelizing the americas from his return to mexico until 1597 he lived in the monastery of tlatelolco working on the history that would make him famous 5 the historia eclesiástica indiana a chronicle of the early evangelization history of the new world the publication of the work was prohibited as it was deemed to contain unsound millenarian joachimite ideas 6 and it was only published for the first time in 1870 when it was brought to light by joaquín garcía icazbalceta in his work mendieta espoused that amerindians were one of the ten lost tribes of israel stating they practiced circumcision due to their alleged jewish ancestry despite the evidence that no circumcision was performed among mesoamericans only scarification of the prepuce in some tribes his version of story was later adopted by juan de torquemada 7 notes edit cárdenas luis gonzález 1949 fray jeronimo de mendieta pensador politico e historiador revista de historia de américa 28 331 376 issn 0034 8325 martínez 1980 131 33 viviana díaz balsera the pyramid under the cross tucson university of arizona press 2005 p 241 fn 25 martínez 1980 133 martínez 1980 135 martínez 1980 189 191 briffault p 329 further reading edit crivelli camillus 1911 jerónimo mendieta the catholic encyclopedia vol x new advent online reproduction ed new york robert appleton and company retrieved 2007 01 30 díaz balsera viviana historia eclesiástica indiana or writing the crisis of providentialism chapter 9 of the pyramid under the cross franciscan discourses of evangelization and the nahua christian subject in sixteenth century mexico tucson university of arizona press 2005 briffault robert 1927 the mothers a study of the origins of sentiments and institutions macmillan phelan john leddy 1970 1956 the millennial kingdom of the franciscans in the new world a study of the writings of gerónimo de mendieta 1525 1604 2nd revised ed berkeley university of california press isbn 0 520 01404 9 oclc 88926 martínez jose luis 1980 gerónimo de mendieta estudios de cultura náhuatl 14 mexico d f unam 131 197 reinhard wolfgang 1992 missionaries humanists and natives in the sixteenth century spanish indies a failed encounter of two worlds renaissance studies 6 3 4 360 376 doi 10 1111 1477 4658 00124 washburn wilcomb e phelan john leddy july 1958 review of the millennial kingdom of the franciscans in the new world a study of the writings of gerónimo de mendieta 1525 1604 by john leddy phelan the william and mary quarterly 3rd series 15 3 404 406 doi 10 2307 1915640 hdl 2027 inu 32000002265413 jstor 1915640 authority control databases international isni viaf gnd fast worldcat national united states 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