| Journal: | Investigaciones geográficas - Instituto de Geografía. UNAM |
| Database: | PERIÓDICA |
| System number: | 000386133 |
| ISSN: | 0188-4611 |
| Authors: | Garza Merodio, Gustavo Gerardo1 |
| Institutions: | 1Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Instituto de Geografía, México, Distrito Federal. México |
| Year: | 2014 |
| Season: | Dic |
| Number: | 85 |
| Pages: | 82-94 |
| Country: | México |
| Language: | Español |
| Document type: | Artículo |
| Approach: | Analítico, descriptivo |
| Spanish abstract | La Pequeña Edad de Hielo (PEH) es el periodo corto y frío que, de acuerdo con aportes de las últimas décadas, se manifestó en temporalidad e intensidad de manera distinta a lo largo y ancho del planeta. A través de fuentes documentales se busca brindar una aproximación de la forma en que se manifestó la PEH en el México central entre principios del siglo XVII y mediados del XIX, en particular de lo acontecido durante los denominados mínimos Maunder y Dalton. En el ámbito hispanoamericano, los registros de las ceremonias de rogativa, albergados en los archivos civil y eclesiástico de las ciudades que fueron sedes obispales, son la fuente documental más precisa. Los ceremoniales de rogativa dedicados a diversas advocaciones o sus reliquias comenzaban a ganar prestigio en España y ser registrados periódicamente, gracias a cuerpos administrativos más regulados en ayuntamientos y catedrales, hacia la época en que ocurrieron las primeras exploraciones trasatlánticas. Estas manifestaciones públicas de la iglesia católica tenían la finalidad de pedir por buenos temporales (para evitar extremos en precipitación o temperatura), contra las epidemias y por el bienestar de autoridades civiles o eclesiásticas |
| English abstract | Comparing instrumental climatic sources with proxy data, in order to review existing climatic models and to acknowledge climatic variability in time and space, is widely recognized nowadays. In Mexico the study of past climate along the last 500 hundred years, has mostly been conducted through the analysis of instrumental sources. Studies that have 1877 as time limit, when the first continuous records started to be taken in Mexico City. For the study of climate along the last centuries, documentary sources have proved their accuracy, if compared to physical and biological data, usually modified by human activity. Tree ring information is among biological sources also useful for recent centuries, but in Mexico it is still necessary to have a better regional coverage. The Little Ice Age (LIA) was defined back in the 1930s through information gathered in North America and Western Europe, but much is still unknown about the climatic behavior of lower latitudes in the Northern Hemisphere and the Southern one during LIA. The reconstruction of past climates, through documentary sources started under scientific principles, only until the mid 20th century and it was a task conducted mostly by British and French authors. Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, recognized French historian, was the first to reveal to the world in the early 1960s, the documentary source that has resulted more precise for climatic reconstruction within the Hispanic cultural realm: the record of the rogation ceremonies. But it was not until the 1990s, when Spanish researchers like Mariano Barriendos, Javier Martín-Vide or Fernando S. Rodrigo, published and disseminated outside Spain, the climatic data obtained at City Councils and Cathedrals throughout the Iberian peninsula. In Mexico this kind of work started to be achieved by 2001. Rogation ceremonies are a reliable source of ancient climatic variability, because of its public and institutional origin, and |
| Disciplines: | Geografía |
| Keyword: | Geografía humana, Pequeña edad de hielo, Climatología histórica, Fuentes documentales, Rogativas, Ceremonias |
| Keyword: | Geography, Human geography, Little ice age, Historical climatology, Information sources, Rogations, Ceremonies, Mexico |
| Full text: | Texto completo (Ver PDF) |
