Rereading the “Écriteau”: Protestant Myths, Native Alliances, and the Histories of French Florida

<p>The <em>écriteaux</em> or public signs that may have been hung around the necks of French colonists in Florida in 1565 by Menéndez de Avilés and his Spanish comrades indicate that the Spanish were motivated to destroy a “Lutheran” colony. Beginning with this Spanish “reading”...

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Main Author: John H. Pollack
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: eScholarship Publishing, University of California 2017-10-01
Series:Journal of Transnational American Studies
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Online Access:http://escholarship.org/uc/item/0nq6q8m6