Maya Christians and their churches in sixteenth-century Belize / Elizabeth Graham.

Author: Graham, Elizabeth A., 1949-

Imprint:Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c2011.

Descriptionxviii, 434, [1] p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.

Note:The view from Belize and the vision from St. Mike's -- Yucatan and Belize on the eve of conquest -- Chesse and terms -- Being Christian and the doctrine of the church -- The environment of early contact -- The millennial kingdom and Belize missions -- How to tell a church -- The churches at Tipu and Lamanai -- Reductions and upheaval in the seventeenth century -- What Europe did for us -- Being pagan -- Everyone knows what a dragon looks like -- Appendix 1. Friars in Belize -- Appendix 2. Bishops of Yucatan to 1714.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. 385-414) and index.

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