Contents

Acknowledgments

List of Abbreviations

List of Contributors

An Introduction to the Messianisms and Millenarianisms of Early-Modern Iberian America, Spain, and Portugal

Luís Filipe Silvério Lima and Ana Paula Torres Megiani

Part 1

The Americas: Between Missionary Projects and Native Prophecies

Chapter 1

Amerindian Cosmologies and Histories in New Spain and Peru: Appropriations and Redimensioning of Christian Concepts by the Nahua, Mayan, and Andean Elites

Eduardo Natalino dos Santos

Chapter 2

Mozas Criollas and New Government: Francis Borgia, Prophetism, and the Spiritual Exercises in Spain and Peru

Stefania Pastore

Chapter 3

The Missionary Roots of Rural Messianic Movements: Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries

Cristina Pompa

Part 2

Prophetical Trajectories and Inquisition Trials

Chapter 4

The Wizard of the Five-color Rosary: Occurrence and Astrology, History, and Politics in the Cause of Juan Serrada, Arrested by the Inquisition in Zaragoza (1648)

Marcos Antonio Lopes Veiga

Chapter 5

Between Prophecy and Politics: The Return to Portugal of Dom Antônio, Prior of Crato, and the Early Years of the Iberian Union

Jacqueline Hermann

Chapter 6

The Devil in the Court of the King: Popular Prophecy and the Inquisition in Seventeenth-century Portugal

Mark Cooper Emerson

Part 3

Between Sebastianism and Fifth Empire: Lettered Culture and the Portuguese Empire

Chapter 7

A Portuguese Jewish Agent of the Philips and a Sebastianist: The Strange Case of Rosales/Manuel Bocarro

Francisco Moreno-Carvalho

Chapter 8

From Politics to Prophecies: Portuguese Resistance and the Prophetic Arsenal at the Time of King Philip of Spain

João Carlos Gonçalves Serafim

Chapter 9

In Defense of Prophecy: The Inquisitorial Proceeding of Father Antônio Vieira

Marcus De Martini

Chapter 10

Vieira Between History of the Future and Clavis Prophetarum

Ana T. Valdez

Bibliography

Index