Research
Travelers and Cartographers
of the New World
Director: Ángel Pérez (Universidad del Pacífico)
The textual and cartographer invention in America studies from the first writings of the XV century to the elaborated narrations of the XVIII century. This research line, that also includes the recovery of texts, aims to retrieve the cultural heritage linked to the different spaces in the American viceroyalties.
Project
Travelers and explorers of the Northeastern Novohispanic Region
Researchers: Blanca López de Mariscal and Paloma Vargas Montes (Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey)
It belongs to the program “Cultural Heritage”, a group whose main objective is the dissemination of a special collection kept by the Tecnológico de Monterrey, from a critical perspective, makes available to the specialist, a collection of editions and studies of the documentary funds guarded in the Biblioteca Cervantina and the Colección Ignacio Bernal. Due to the variety of this documentary funds about the history of the Noreste novohispano (Noreastern Hispanic Region) the efforts for research are concentrated, in a preliminary stage, on the establishment of a corpus of travel, conquest and colonization of the Septentrión Occidental Novohispano (Northwestern Novohispanic Region) in the XVI-XVII centuries /today states of Tamaulipas, Coahuila, Nuevo León and Texas now in the United States of America).
Activities
- Critical study of documents about the discovery and exploration of the Bahía del Espíritu Santo and the Bahía de Pensacola, Texas, XVIII century (2015-2016).
- Safeguard edition and bilingual religious texts study of the missions of the Noreste Novohispano (Northeastern Novohispanic Region): notes for the recovery of coahuilteca and pajalate indigenous languages (2015-2016).