Magistrates of the Sacred: Priests and Parishioners in Eighteenth-Century Mexico.(Review)
Historian, The, March, 1999
Magistrates of the Sacred: Priests and Parishioners in Eighteenth-Century Mexico. By William B. Taylor. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996. Pp. 984. $75.00)
The American Historical Association presented its Albert J. Beveridge Award to Professor William B. Taylor of Southern Methodist University for his study of eighteenth-century Mexico. The award committee characterized the work as "masterful" saying that publication of this book inaugurates nothing less than a new era in the study of church-state relations in late colonial Mexico. The study has implications that reach beyond the period and considers in detail various aspects of day-to-day parochial life as well as diocesan and archdiocesan politics. The Beveridge Award is presented annually for the...
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