Abstract

VITELA MALDONADO, Beatriz Eugenia  and  SANFILIPPO Y BORRAS, José. Juan Díaz de Arce, biography of a chronicler. Let. hist. [online]. 2022, n.27, e7367.  Epub July 31, 2023. ISSN 2448-8372.  https://doi.org/10.31836/lh.27.7367.

The aim of this article is to present the life of Juan Díaz de Arce, religious and professor at the Royal University of Mexico, who lived during the first half of the 17th century. Through his work, Libro de la Vida del Próximo Evangélico el Venerable Padre Bernardino Álvarez, Díaz de Arce spread knowledge of the religious hospital work in New Spain narrated by the Brothers of Charity as its protagonists. Díaz de Arce’s text is places the author as a chronicler of the considered thus a key primary source for Hospital Orders in Mexico.

Keywords : Hospital Orders; hospitals; Novo-Hispanic chronicle; Royal University of Mexico; viceroyalty; 17^th century.

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