Whatever happened to the spiritual economy in colonial Spanish America? by European University Institute published on 2021-07-07T09:50:47Z Conversation with Kathryn Burns (University of North Carolina)on 20 May 2021 In the framework of the project "Colonial legacies, invisible institutions, and financial markets in Latin America (and beyond)". In conversation with Regina Grafe (EUI), Kathryn Burns (University of North Carolina) explores the making of and long-term impact of her volume "Colonial Habits. Convents and the Spiritual Economy of Cuzco, Peru" (Duke University Press, 1999), which almost two decades ago opened up entirely new questions about the entanglements of religious institutions, women’s participation in the credit markets, and how credit and finance sustained the structures of the Spanish Empire.
