Introducción
El artículo analizará las diferentes formas de entender, vivir y narrar el cuerpo humano entre algunos de los más destacados franciscanos del siglo XVI, a saber: fray Andrés de Olmos,
fray
Toribio
de Benavente “Motolinía”, fray Jerónimo de
Mendieta
y
fray Bernardino
de Sahagún.
La
cultura
cristiana
de la época consideró
al
cuerpo
como obstáculo para la salvación y perfección del alma, relacionándolo con lo bestial, material,
terrenal, mutable y,
en
tanto tal, corruptible.
History
Abstract
The current paper examines some of the
footprints made by the body, as encountered in several
of the most important sixteenth-century Franciscan texts. The overall objective
of enlarging upon how defined, imagined, represented
and punished the body was among some of the first missionaries in ancient Mesoamerica will be addressed by
using the following methodologies: the fundamental elements of knowledge
about others, the scenario of salvation and reason by example, the essential
part of an interpretive framework that justified the conquest, and being
subjected to violence due to non-compliance with the Western moral canon.
Introduction
The current paper analyses the different ways of understanding, living and narrating the human body among some of the most prominent sixteenth-century Franciscans, namely:
Fray Andrés de Olmos, Fray Toribio
de Benavente “Motolinía”,
Fray Jerónimo de
Mendieta and Fray Bernardino de
Sahagún. The Christian culture of
the time regarded the body
as an obstacle to the salvation and
perfection of the soul, relating it to the bestial, material, earthly,
mutable and, as such, corruptible.