Normatividades e instituciones eclesiásticas en la Nueva España, siglos XVI–XIX
Benedetta Albani, Otto Danwerth, Thomas Duve (eds.)
Global Perspectives on Legal History 5
Frankfurt am Main: Max Planck Institute for European Legal History 2018. VII, 308 S.
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Ecclesiastical institutions and actors played key roles in the formation of normative orders in early modern Ibero-America. However, both legal historiography, due to its strong legalistic, state-centered imprint, and general historiography on the colonial period, more inclined towards secular law, have only rarely discussed the contribution of ecclesiastical normativity to the formation of what came to be called ‘derecho indiano’
In light of that situation, the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History organised a series of seminars in different Latin American cities in order to offer an interdisciplinary forum dedicated to the research on ecclesiastical normativities and institutions in Ibero-America from the 16th to the 19th century. The present volume is the first one in a series of peer-reviewed publications that document the results of this series of seminars held in Mexico City, Lima, Bogotá, and São Paulo.
This volume, focusing on the Viceroyalty of New Spain, is divided into five thematic parts. The first section presents studies on canon law and moral theology that deal with different aspects of multinormativity and with the teaching of the two disciplines in the early modern period. The second section examines diocesan governance and ecclesiastical power in Mexico City and Puebla by examining statutes of the cathedral chapters, the careers and influence of individual members of the curia arzobispal as well as a late 18th-century legal opinion on episcopal authority. In the third section, the contributors reflect on the normativity and administration of sacraments, drawing on conciliar norms, treatises, pragmatic literature as well as on registers of baptisms and confessions. The fourth section deals with ethnic groups in both civil and ecclesiastical courts of justice, including case studies of indigenous people accused of witchcraft (hechicería) in a tribunal in Tlaxcala, and of Afro-Mexicans who started litigation in the archiepiscopal court of Mexico. The articles of the fifth section cover the topics of beatification procedure, religious piety and cultural expressions (including music and devotional images) from a normative perspective and extend the period of investigation to the 19th century.
The articles on ecclesiastical institutions and normativities in New Spain collected in this volume propose new research fields for legal history and the history of the Church that are also of relevance for social and cultural history. The editors’ intention was to present approaches that explore the relationship between different types of normativities, their local adaptations, their ties with global debates, the forms of solving conflicts, as well as the role of jurists, theologians and other actors. The topics discussed by the authors represented in this volume – who come from the disciplines of history, legal history, church history, ethnohistory, art history and the history of music – contribute to a better understanding of the normative religious universe of Spanish America.
Contents
1 | Benedetta Albani, Otto Danwerth, Thomas Duve Presentación |
Derecho canónico y teología moral | |
15 | Lara Semboloni Una aproximación jurídico-teológica, siglo XVI. Principios, leyes y política para la cuestión de la tierra en Nueva España |
37 | Víctor Zorrilla Consideraciones sobre la doctrina del derecho de guerra de José de Acosta |
51 | Jesús Joel Peña Espinosa Fuentes, autoridades y normas para la enseñanza del derecho canónico en el seminario de Puebla durante la época novohispana |
Gobierno diocesano y poder eclesiástico | |
71 | Jesús Vidal Gil Los estatutos del cabildo de la catedral de México elaborados en el Tercer Concilio Provincial Mexicano (1585) |
89 | Rodolfo Aguirre Un poder eclesiástico criollo: los miembros de la curia arzobispal de México (1682–1747) |
121 | Sergio Francisco Rosas Salas Costumbre, necesidad sacramental y facultades sólitas en Puebla. Un dictamen de fray Mateo Estrada, O. P. (1783) |
Normatividad y administración de los sacramentos | |
139 | Juan Carlos Casas García El derecho sacramental en el Tractado de fray Pedro de Agurto (México 1573) en defensa de la administración de la eucaristía y extremaunción a los indígenas de la Nueva España |
155 | Berenise Bravo Rubio «La materia, la forma y el ministro». El bautizo de párvulos y adultos en la parroquia del Sagrario metropolitano de México (1690–1728) |
169 | Claudia Ferreira Ascencio Los padrones de confesión y comunión del Sagrario de México. Una aproximación a la praxis sacramental en el orden canónico indiano (1676–1825) |
Foros de justicia y grupos étnicos | |
197 | Olivia Luzán Cervantes Indios acusados de hechicería ante el foro de justicia civil de la ciudad y provincia de Tlaxcala (siglo XVIII) |
217 | María Leticia Vázquez Oropeza La población de origen africano en Nueva España y su relación con la jurisdicción eclesiástica. El uso de la justicia en la audiencia del arzobispado de México (siglos XVII y XVIII) |
Devoción y vida cultural | |
233 | Doris Bieñko de Peralta El impasse de una beatificación. El proceso de sor María de Jesús Tomellín (1597–1637), monja concepcionista poblana |
257 | Lourdes Turrent Música, rito y arquitectura en la Iglesia novohispana: clero regular y secular |
281 | Gabriela Díaz Patiño Inclusión de una nueva política de la imagen devocional en la arquidiócesis de México (1855–1896) |
299 | Contributors |