La Conquistadora

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La Conquistadora is written by Amy G. Remensnyder and published by Oxford University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0199397538 (ISBN 10) and 9780199397532 (ISBN 13).

Amy Remensnyder explores how Spanish Christians shaped the Virgin Mary as a symbol of the twinned colonizing enterprises of conquest and conversion in medieval Spain and early Spanish America. Beginning in the eleventh century and ending in the seventeenth century, the book brings together the medieval and early modern periods, the Old and New Worlds. It also brings together minorities whom historians most often treat separately: Jews, Muslims, those Jews and Muslims who converted to Christianity in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries (conversos and Moriscos), and the indigenous peoples of the New World.