Intern Spotlight: The Post-Conquest Life of Hernando Cortés in the Spanish Foreign Copying Program Records at the Library of Congress
Posted by: Julie Miller
The Hospital de Jesús series in the Manuscript Division’s Spanish Foreign Copying Program Records hides a wealth of sources in plain sight due to its misleading title. Instead of medical documentation, the series consists of twenty-nine volumes on the Marquisate of the Valley of Oaxaca, the title and estates granted to the conquistador Hernando Cortés in 1529, after the fall of Tenochtitlán.
Posted in: Hispanic and Latino History, Intern Spotlight
