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- Title
Brave New Spain: An Irishman’s Independence Plot in Seventeenth-Century Mexico*.
- Authors
Crewe, Ryan Dominic
- Abstract
The article discusses the seventeenth-century Irish revolutionary known as Don Guillén Lombardo de Guzmán, arrested by the Mexican Inquisition in 1642 in Mexico City, Mexico, focusing particularly on how his travels throughout Iberia and the Atlantic region provide information regarding Atlantic culture, religion, and the intellectual history of the 1630s and 1640s. The author's microhistory considers Don Guillén's origins (born William Lamport in 1611), his education, his relationships with the Spanish court and the Irish exile community in Spain, his plans to liberate New Spain from Spanish rule and establish a democratic monarchy, and his seventeen-year incarceration by the Inquisition.
- Subjects
MEXICO; LOMBARDO, Guillen, d. 1659; IRISH people; MICROHISTORY; INTELLECTUAL history; INQUISITION; REFORMATION; MEXICAN history to 1810; SPANISH colony, Mexico, 1540-1810; HISTORY of New Spain -- 17th century; NEW Spain; HISTORY
- Publication
Past & Present, 2010, Vol 207, Issue 1, p53
- ISSN
0031-2746
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/pastj/gtq005