...John E. Kicza Holy Wednesday: A Nahua Drama from Early Colonial Mexico . By Burkhart Louise M. . Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 1996 . Photographs. Plates. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xii, 314 pp. Cloth , $42.95 . Paper , $18.95 . Copyright...

... on holidays. People preferred outdoor activities when the weather was nice. Most horse races were held on Mondays, Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays, although, Purcell Torretti notes, sometimes they were held on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. Railway workers liked to visit taverns. Bars could be noisy...

... quote from Durán on p. 75) or that he makes himself (for example, on pp. 119 – 20 he completely misreads a simple passage from 5r of Molina’s 1569 Confessionario ). Those interested in pursuing such matters should consult Burkhart’s The Slippery Earth and her Holy Wednesday: A Nahua Drama from...

... title refers to the Brazilian government’s effort to suspend the celebration of Rio de Janeiro’s Carnaval in 1912 from February until April to mourn the death of the nation’s premier diplomat, the Barão do Rio Branco (José Maria da Silva Paranhos Jr.), who died the Saturday before Ash Wednesday...

...Stuart B. Schwartz Copyright 1983 by Duke University Press 1983 On Wednesday, January 12, 1983, Bailey W. Diffie suffered a fatal stroke that ended his distinguished career as a scholar and a teacher and took from our profession a prominent historian and a wonderful man. Born...

...: religious festivities, assistance to brothers, and social philanthropy. The most important events were the annual celebrations: for the Third Order of St. Francis, these were Ash Wednesday, Holy Week, and the festival of Santa Isabel; for the Third Order of the Carmelites, that of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel...

... Latin American Institutions held in his living room, 115 South Harvard Drive, and which met Monday, Wednesday, and Friday evenings from 7:00 to 10:30 or later. In those days, and certainly today, it was most unusual for seminars to meet for ten to twelve hours weekly. None of us complained and some...

... in mexicano” by Father Paredes, see INAH-AH, CSG, vol. 122, 49r. 122 The first entries in the register state that the CBM was for naturales ; CBM, 1r. 123 See Louise M. Burkhart, Holy Wednesday: A Nahua Drama from Early Colonial Mexico (Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 1996), 79–80...

... —This committee convened on Wednesday, December 30, in the Biltmore Hotel. The chairman reported that the General Committee of CLAH had voted to provide a subsidy for the publication of another volume of essays similar to those that appeared in the May issue of The History Teacher . A. W. Chile-Río de...

... Substrate of Maya Myth and Ritual (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1981); Pierre Ragnon, “La Colonización de lo Sagrado: La Historia del Sacromonte de Amecameca,” Relaciones, Estudios de Historia y Sociedad 75 (1998): 281 – 300; Louise M. Burkhart, Holy Wednesday: A Nahua Drama from Early Colonial...

... against oppression, MacLachlan opposed the notion that crime might forge class unity, if briefly. Obviously both papers had the benefit of sensitive and informed criticism. S. J. S. On Wednesday afternoon, December 29, following the annual luncheon-business meeting, some seventy persons...

... mantra, repeated at every opportunity: no matter whom Geisel and Figueiredo endorsed, only the convention could nominate a candidate. Every Wednesday in São Paulo, Maluf hosted a lunch for prominent arenistas . Then every Thursday, he departed for a whirlwind tour of the interior, visiting delegates...

... met on Wednesday, December 28, 1983, in the Sheraton-Palace Hotel. Lawrence A. Clayton (University of Alabama), Thomas M. Davies, Jr. (San Diego State University), and Richard Graham (University of Texas, Austin) also attended. Chairman Nunn (Portland State University) reported that the CLAH-Tinker...

... been “famous for its central market ... an important social and economic articulating mechanism between Valley [and] Serranía [highland peasants], town and city people.” 19 During Wednesday and Saturday markets, Serranos and other campesinos negotiate amid town and city people: “The majority...

.... Ristenpart, Almanaque , xvii. 44. Ristenpart, El Cometa Halley , 62. 45. See, for instance, “El cometa Halley,” El Sur (Concepción), 20 Apr. 1910, which discusses how the observatory opened its doors to the general public on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Sundays in April and May of that year...

... that there was no truth to it. 42 He then cabled De la Espriella that “rumors” of a special commission had produced a “bad effect” and that he had arranged to initiate canal talks on Wednesday, November 11. He added that he had assured Hay “nothing on our side would impede the rapid drafting” of the treaty. 43 At 6...

... and more comuneros demanding his removal, Archbishop Alcedo finally recommended that the priest leave the district until tensions abated. Heeding this advice, and perhaps reconsidering the cultural humiliation of removal by mule, Father Chávez finally left for Ayacucho City on Wednesday, May 19. Before...

..., and restaurateurs who catered to customers' needs. 34 People also had difficulty escaping the noise and disturbance that accompanied the weekly affairs. Complaints by a few local residents in the western portion of the city managed to temporarily shut down the market at San Hipólito, where on Wednesdays...

... the charms of Lent thanks to the “unrest” of the previous months. A few days after Ash Wednesday, however, this lighthearted weekly came out in favor of the ban and praised the government for its effective enforcement, “another palm in the trophy of liberty and enlightenment” that demonstrated the “progress...

..., the medical Professionals would be instructed in the method of arm-to-arm vaccination, and on return to their town they would take the lymph to the smaller townships. 48 Castro must have asked Oller to respond to Balmis’s Statements, because on February 15 (Ash Wednesday) Oller sent Castro a report...