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From Marvelous Antidote to the Poison of Idolatry: The Transatlantic Role of Andean Bezoar Stones During the Late Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2010) 90 (1): 3–39.
Published: 01 February 2010
... cabinets, this essay considers how Peruvian bezoar stones acquired transatlantic importance following their discovery in 1568 by a Spanish soldier. In spite of its less-than-glamorous physiological genesis as a calcinated concretion formed in the digestive tract of ruminants, including the four species...
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Figure 1 Administering the bezoar stone to an ill man. From Johannes de Cuba, Ortus sanitatis . Translaté de latin (de Jean de Cuba) en françois ( Le traictié des bestes, oyseaux, poissons, pierres précieuses et orines du Jardin de santé ) (Paris: A. Verard, ca. 1499 – 1502), fol. 135v. Image
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This cross section of the bezoar, although not drawn to scale, reveals the ...
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Published: 01 February 2010
Figure 2 This cross section of the bezoar, although not drawn to scale, reveals the stone’s onionlike layers. From Pierre Pomet, Histoire générale des drogues, traitant des plantes, des animaux, & des minéraux , Seconde Partie, Livre premier, Des animaux , Chapitre III, Du Bezoar (Paris
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2010) 90 (1): 1–2.
Published: 01 February 2010
... of circulation and shifts in the meaning of objects. First, Marcia Stephenson recovers the history of bezoar stones, hardened secretions from the entrails of animals, which early modern Europeans believed to have medicinal properties, particularly as antidotes to poisons. Knowledge drawn from Asian medicine set...
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Llamas beyond the Andes: Untold Histories of Camelids in the Modern World
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2024) 104 (4): 704–706.
Published: 01 November 2024
... with the discovery of bezoar stones, a gastrointestinal digestive feature of many mammals, including Andean camelids. These stones were objects of colonial and imperial desires that facilitated a reintroduction and gradual commodification of llamas in early modern Europe. As the desire settled and further research...
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The Chankas and the Priest: A Tale of Murder and Exile in Highland Peru
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2018) 98 (1): 122–123.
Published: 01 February 2018
...-ranging topics such as bezoar stones, the sale of papal bulls, and the organization of forced labor at the Huancavelica mercury mines. The book stands as an inspiration to historians, both new and well-seasoned, who face the excruciating task of bringing order to disparate information scattered across...
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Natural Things in Early Modern Worlds
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2024) 104 (2): 323–325.
Published: 01 May 2024
... provocations,” that otherwise seek to condense key elements of the chapter essays. The 12 galleries or chapters are, in the order of their appearance, as follows: Helen Burgos-Ellis on pollen or plant sexuality in Mesoamerica; Mackenzie Cooley on the trafficking of bezoars from the East and West Indies...
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Hybridity and the Domestication of Wildness: Creating the Paco-vicuña in Early Nineteenth-Century Peru
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2023) 103 (4): 617–649.
Published: 01 November 2023
... of Andean Bezoar Stones during the Late Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries .” Hispanic American Historical Review 90 , no. 1 ( 2010 ): 3 – 39 . Stephenson Marcia . Llamas beyond the Andes: Untold Histories of Camelids in the Modern World . Austin : University of Texas Press...
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The “Contagious Stench” Of Idolatry: The Rhetoric of Disease and Sacrilegious Acts in Colonial New Spain
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2016) 96 (3): 481–515.
Published: 01 August 2016
... and Christian Thought in the Western Mediterranean . Baltimore, MD : Johns Hopkins University Press . Stephenson Marcia . 2010 . “ From Marvelous Antidote to the Poison of Idolatry: The Transatlantic Role of Andean Bezoar Stones during the Late Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries .” Hispanic...
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