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The Memoirs of Fray Servando Teresa de Mier

Fray Servando Teresa de Mier author Helen Lane translator Susana Rotker editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc

Published:2nd Sep '99

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The story of Fray Servando's life in exile is a vivid account of the adventures of one of the most original ideologues of Latin American independence. On December 12, 1794, Fray Servando preached a sermon in Mexico City claiming that the Indies had been converted by St. Thomas long before the Spaniards arrived. This was a subversive and controversial notion because it took away the rationale for the Spanish conquest of the New World - the conversion of the heathen. Colonial authorities arrested him and he was exiled to Spain where he was imprisoned by his own Dominican order. Servando escaped and spent 10 years in exile travelling throughout Europe disguised as a French priest, issuing revolutionary manifestos and sermons. He returned to Mexico after Independence and served the new government before his death. This is the only English translation of The Memoirs of Fray Servando Teresa de Mier available.

"Wonderfully clear translation, excellently rendered in the language of the period."--Carys Evans-Corrales, University of Pittsburgh at Bradford "Well-translated....These entertaining memoirs offer a lively portrait of their author. They are as eccentric, partisan, and slippery as Fray Servando himself."--Frederick Luciani, The New York Times Book Review

ISBN: 9780195106749

Dimensions: 140mm x 208mm x 25mm

Weight: 357g

304 pages