Featured Texts
Selected critical introductions to manuscripts with transcriptions, translations and scholarly notes.
The Female Corpse Exhibited
An Investigation of the Authenticity of the Stigmata of Maria de Jesus (1683) and the Representation of the Female Body in Iberian Colonial Asia. Crowned-nun portraits, also known as retratos de monjas coronadas, was one of the practices to honor and immortalize these religious women in New Spain (modern-day Mexico) during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
The Theft of the Golden Cross of the Santo Niño
An India and Esclavo at the crossroads between communities
Distance, Disorder, Archives, and Enslavement
Pasay 1732. The file’s first leaf entitles it “In which the children of Mestizos should become monacillos [sacristans]
Race, Massacre, and Resurrection in Caysasay
The case at hand is an ecclesiastical investigation that validated a miracle performed by Our Lady of Caysasay, an image of the Immaculate Conception located in Caysasay, near Taal, not far from Manila.
Upheaval and Indigenous Resistance in Dongalo
In May of 1717, a physical skirmish broke out in Dongallo, a town just south of Manila between a group of local principales and Augustinian officials over where the line between their property really was
Power, Property, and Enslavement
What does a close read of a slave's deed of sale tell us?
Harvested by Decree
The real compra bandala in the Bikol region
Objects of Evangelism
This inventory offers insights into the types of objects valued by Europeans in China—ranging from white silk coats and mosquito screens to Tibetan Buddhist texts.
Lexicons and Rules
The project began with Philippine language books at King’s College
