Background
Weinberg, Florence May was born on December 3, 1933 in Alamogordo, New Mexico, United States. Daughter of Steven Horace and Olive Gladys (Edgington) Byham.
(Two radically different cultures, 16th-century Spanish an...)
Two radically different cultures, 16th-century Spanish and ancient Pueblo Indian, collide. Conflicts and passions explode--love and faith oppose anger, brutality, hatred, lust, greed and ambition--with tragic consequences.
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(Sonora Wind portrays the actual historical and political ...)
Sonora Wind portrays the actual historical and political conspiracy to destroy a too-powerful branch of the Catholic Church, the Jesuit order. The murder of a military inspector entails a lengthy chase across wild Sonoran country, a long-distance love affair between the Jesuit missionary priest-detective, Ygnacio Pfefferkorn and the widow Beatriz Urrutia, and the ultimate expulsion and imprisonment of the Jesuits from Sonora.
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(Mystery and murder in Jesuit mission territory: a story s...)
Mystery and murder in Jesuit mission territory: a story set in the desert and craggy mountains of Sonora, Mexico, in the eighteenth century. An army captain is killed at Ures Mission in such a way as to throw the blame on the missionary, Andreas Michel, S.J. He sends to a neighboring mission for Fr. Ignaz Pfefferkorn who investigates, risking his life in the process. The investigation reveals illegitimate commerce—gun-running—between a Jesuit Vice-Provincial and Dutch traders, a beautiful widow seeking revenge against the army and the Jesuits for her husband’s suspicious death, Apache involvement, and political intrigue. Ignaz solves the crime, but he and his brothers are swept up in the expulsion of all Jesuits from Spain and its dependencies. Ignaz, personifying the best of the Jesuit mission endeavor in New Spain, mourns the destruction of the entire enterprise.
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(Sonora, 1761-62: Father Ygnacio Pfefferkorn, SJ, sufferin...)
Sonora, 1761-62: Father Ygnacio Pfefferkorn, SJ, suffering from acute malaria, is transferred to a new mission, Guevavi in present-day Arizona. Healed by a Pima medicine man: Jevho, and his half-Pima, half-Irish nurse-assistant Patricia O'Meara, he becomes obsessed with converting Jevho to Christianity. A grisly murder is discovered near the mission, and Ygnacio sets about solving the crime, fearing his mission Indians will be blamed. Suspects abound in the small Irish ranching community and among Jevho's people. Patricia, in love with both the priest and Jevho, must choose between cultures, native or European.
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(Father Ignaz (Ygnacio) Pfefferkorn, a missionary from the...)
Father Ignaz (Ygnacio) Pfefferkorn, a missionary from the Sonora Desert region of northern Mexico, is caught in the Expulsion of all Jesuits in 1767. After enduring eight years of prison and abuse, he is incarcerated in Caridad Monastery where the abbot recruits him to help solve two murders. In the course of his investigations, Father Ignaz finds his own life in peril.
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(In the year 1731, three Franciscan missions are strugglin...)
In the year 1731, three Franciscan missions are struggling to establish themselves on the San Antonio River despite Apache raids. A young missionary, Fray Marcos, and an Apache woman warrior, Ahuila, fall in love. They must work out their fate in the face of cultural conflicts and prejudices. "Apache Lance, Franciscan Cross" explores a crucial time in San Antonio history, featuring courageous settlers, missionaries, Indian converts and fierce Apache attacks. The story will appeal to history buffs, especially Southwesterners. Plot is fast moving with powerful emotions, action, love interest, suspense, accurate background and landscape.
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(Johann Fischart, translator/adapter of Gargantua, is one ...)
Johann Fischart, translator/adapter of Gargantua, is one of the few near-contemporaries whose reaction to Rabelais is known. However, with its massive word-lists, puns and neologisms, Fischart's Geschichtklitterung is virtually inaccessible. Whereas most scholars have treated this work as a linguistic document essential in the evolution of the vernacular, the present study is designed to open up Fischart's text with its variety of meanings to readers interested in the development of humanism, and to answer the questions of Rabelais scholars on how and why Fischart interpreted and altered the original text. This monograph places Fischart in his cultural, political, religious and literary milieu, between the French and German civilizations as they were perceived in Strassburg at the end of the 16th century.
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(In the year 1731, three Franciscan missions are strugglin...)
In the year 1731, three Franciscan missions are struggling to establish themselves on the San Antonio River despite Apache raids. The story explores a crucial time in San Antonio history, featuring courageous settlers, missionaries, Indian converts and fierce Apache attacks. Apache Lance, Franciscan Cross by Florence Byham Weinberg is an Award-Winning Finalist in two categories for the 2007 New Mexico Book Awards, Historical Fiction and Best Book on Southwest and a 2006 WILLA Literary Award finalist in the category of historical fiction. The WILLA Literary Awards are chosen by a distinguished panel of twenty-one professional librarians.
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modern language and literature educator
Weinberg, Florence May was born on December 3, 1933 in Alamogordo, New Mexico, United States. Daughter of Steven Horace and Olive Gladys (Edgington) Byham.
Doctor of Philosophy, University Rochester, 1968.
Instructor modern languages, St. John Fisher College, Rochester, New York, 1967; assistant professor modern languages, St. John Fisher College, Rochester, New York, 1967-1971; associate professor modern languages, St. John Fisher College, Rochester, New York, 1971-1975; professor modern languages, St. John Fisher College, Rochester, New York, 1975-1989; department chairman modern languages, St. John Fisher College, Rochester, New York, 1972-1979; director international studies, St. John Fisher College, Rochester, New York, 1983-1986; professor French and Spanish, Trinity U., San Antonio, Texas, since 1989; chair modern languages and literature, Trinity U., San Antonio, Texas, 1989-1995.
(Father Ignaz (Ygnacio) Pfefferkorn, a missionary from the...)
(Sonora, 1761-62: Father Ygnacio Pfefferkorn, SJ, sufferin...)
(Sonora Wind portrays the actual historical and political ...)
(Mystery and murder in Jesuit mission territory: a story s...)
(In the year 1731, three Franciscan missions are strugglin...)
(In the year 1731, three Franciscan missions are strugglin...)
(Johann Fischart, translator/adapter of Gargantua, is one ...)
(Two radically different cultures, 16th-century Spanish an...)
(Nonfiction: religion)
Member Modern Language Association, N.E. Modern Language Association (secretary French 16th century section 1978, chairman 1979), South Control Modern Language Association, American Association Teachers French, Renaissance Society American.
Married Kurt Weinberg, May 8, 1955 (deceased February 1996).