Alejandro Cañeque

Alejandro Cañeque’s project explores the propagation of stories and images of martyrdom around the Spanish Empire from the late-sixteenth to the mid-eighteenth century. It identifies four frontiers of martyrdom: England (frontier of heresy), North Africa (frontier of infidelity), Japan (frontier of civilized paganism), and northern Mexico and the eastern and southern regions of Peru (frontier of savage paganism).