GUTIERRE GONZÁLEZ DONCEL AND THE LIBRO DE DOCTRINA CHRISTIANA. INFLUENCE AND TRANSMISSION OF A PEDAGOGICAL TREATISE IN THE WEST INDES

Authors

  • María Amparo López Arandia University of Extremadura

Keywords:

Gutierre González Doncel, West Indes, New Spain, Brazil, 16th century, teaching

Abstract

This article aims to study the influence and the transmission of the Libro de doctrina christiana, a pedagogical treatise written by the castilian priest Gutierre González Doncel in the 16th century. It was written in Rome and it was sent to Castile to be used in a school for the Christian doctrine, which was established in Jaén. From this Castilian town, the treatise arrived in the West Indes. There it influenced Vasco de Quiroga and Friar Juan de Zumárraga in New Spain, besides the Franciscan missionaries in Brazil.

Author Biography

  • María Amparo López Arandia, University of Extremadura

    Specialist in religious history during the 16th and 17th centuries, mainly, he has studied from the spiritual currents that emerged at the beginning of the Renaissance, to the action of religious orders and their influence on politics, from positions such as the royal confessional. Similarly, his interest focuses on the urban world during the Modern Age, addressing the processes of repopulating and founding cities, their representation in literature or cartography, and the creation of special demarcations, such as the maritime provinces. Although attached to the Department of History, its work is carried out in the Faculties of Documentation Sciences-Communication and Education (Badajoz).

     

     

     

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No. 27/28 (2014): Tribute to prof. Dr. D. Fernando Serrano Mangas

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GUTIERRE GONZÁLEZ DONCEL AND THE LIBRO DE DOCTRINA CHRISTIANA. INFLUENCE AND TRANSMISSION OF A PEDAGOGICAL TREATISE IN THE WEST INDES. (2025). Norba. Revista De Historia - NRH, 27/28, 255-280. https://revista-norbahistoria.unex.es/index.php/NRH/article/view/834