Abstract

CRUZ MEDINA**, Juan Pablo. The “Imago” of Kempis: Baroque speech as constructor of reality in the colonial New Granada. Hist. Soc. [online]. 2017, n.33, pp.245-277. ISSN 0121-8417.  https://doi.org/10.15446/hys.n33.62216.

Using as its main source the Imitatio Christi by Thomas de Kempis -the genesis of Baroque moral prose- this article approaches the discursive mechanisms used by the Church in colonial New Granada to define a social archetype. The use of disappointment as a formula to controvert reality, controlling social action, becomes here the center of analysis, which seeks to evidence that the American colonial church sought to supplant the real from an “imago”: mental image with persuasive capacity, directed towards the control of the bodies and the actions of the subjects.

Keywords : Kempis, Jesuits; colonial church; New Granada; Counter-Reformation (au- thor).

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