Comisarios Generales y Perlados de las Hordenes deste Rreyno Cierbos de Dios · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Comisarios Generales y Perlados de las Hordenes deste Rreyno Cierbos de Dios
Subject: Religious Orders; Clergy; Ecclesiastics; Church Hierarchy; Government; Conquest; Colonialism; Commissary
Period: 1600-1650;
Geographic: Lima; West Indies; South America; Peru
Description: The author spends this section of this chapter discussing religious establishment in Peru and the Church’s hierarchy. This image depicts the commissary religious officials that governed in Peru. This religious order would help govern certain smaller towns and districts in Spanish conquered Peru. There is an ecclesiastic depicted sitting in a chair on the left side of the image as he speaks to two other clergymen who are kneeling before him. There is a word written above the two kneeling clergymen which reads, obedienca [obedience].
Image Creator: Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala (Illustrator)
Type: Text; Illustration [Manuscript]
Identifier: mta:23208
Language: spa
Source Name: El primer nueva corónica y buen gobierno [The First New Chronicle and Good Government]
Parent Collection: Latin American Chronicles
Image: mta_23208_OBJ.jpg