(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2022-10-31) Alvarez Ponce, Victor Emilio
On October 28, 1746, an earthquake and tsunami destroyed the viceregal city of Lima and the port of Callao. The impact of that disaster on the Hispanic world was intertwined with the advancement of science and the understanding of nature. Various proposals from a progressive and academicist clergy tried to explain these phenomena. However, the society and a traditional faction of the Church in the face of these vulnerabilities reinforced, through fear, their own mechanisms of divine protection. This article proposes a parallel development between scientific understanding and cultural imaginaries about these catastrophes in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in the Western world.
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2022-10-30) Scaletti-Cárdenas, Adriana
The earthquakes of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were decisive for Lima, the City of the Kings. From the perspective of the history of architecture, the moments after the earthquakes are particularly interesting, especially the reconstructions of the great viceregal capital. What was rebuilt and why? What materials and methods were chosen and for what reasons? Where and how were the new lots laid out? Why was the city not moved, as it happened in other similar cases? This paper reflects on these questions and on what the presence of such disasters meant in the evolution of Lima and Peruvian immovable material culture.
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2022-10-30) O’Phelan Godoy, Scarlett
This article seeks to establish connections between the natural disaster of 1746 and the Lima conspiracy of 1750, as part of the mid-eighteenth century context, when social movements of a certain magnitude underwent a process of maturation. The distress that the earthquake caused in the poor population, as a result of hygienic deficiencies, led to outbreaks of social unrest. From the riots of the Indian potters in the Santa Ana neighborhood in 1747, to the plan forged three years later by Indians and other social actors involved in the conspiracy, collective fear was used as a control mechanism and an opportunity for insurrection.