Winds, heart, and heat in premodern Franciscan and Nahua concepts of 'soul'.
The Tercer abecedario espiritual (1527) was the most influential work of Franciscan friar and widely read spiritual author Francisco de Osuna (c.1492-c.1540). This essay focuses on descriptions of the soul in his treatise in order to highlight a series of correspondences between Nahua and Franciscan...
| Publicado en: | Colonial Latin American Review Vol. 27; no. 3; pp. 296 - 316 |
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