Richard Greenleaf has done Latin Americanists a real service in gathering these twenty-three very enlightening and revealing selections on the story of the Church in the colonial period. They run the gamut of the sixteenth, seventeenth, and the Bourbon centuries, and close with a trio on colonial arts and letters. Latin Americanists are even more in his debt for the excellent introduction which goes far beyond a simple quick summary of the contents of the several pieces; it constitutes a crisp and scholarly statement of the main aspects of the Church story. And to this he adds a full bibliography, presented with critical comment. One of the more valuable of the Borzoi series!
Copyright 1972 by Duke University Press
1972