- Description
- 1 online resource (xviii, 434, [1] p.) : ill., maps.
- Series Statement
- Maya studies
- Uniform Title
- Maya Christians and their churches in sixteenth-century Belize (Online)
- Maya studies.
- Alternative Title
- Maya Christians and their churches in sixteenth-century Belize (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 385-414) and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Contents
- The view from Belize and the vision from St. Mike's -- Yucatan and Belize on the eve of conquest -- Chesse and terms -- Being Christian and the doctrine of the church -- The environment of early contact -- The millennial kingdom and Belize missions -- How to tell a church -- The churches at Tipu and Lamanai -- Reductions and upheaval in the seventeenth century -- What Europe did for us -- Being pagan -- Everyone knows what a dragon looks like -- Appendix 1. Friars in Belize -- Appendix 2. Bishops of Yucatan to 1714.
- LCCN
- 2011011290
- OCLC
- ssj0000565649
- Author
Graham, Elizabeth A., 1949-
- Title
Maya Christians and their churches in sixteenth-century Belize [electronic resource] / Elizabeth Graham.
- Imprint
Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c2011.
- Series
Maya studies
Maya studies.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 385-414) and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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