Normatividades e instituciones eclesiásticas en la Nueva España, siglos XVI-XIX / Benedetta Albani, Otto Danwerth, Thomas Duve (eds.).

• TeilnehmendeR: Albani, Benedetta,; Danwerth, Otto,; Duve, Thomas,
• Place / Publishing House: Frankfurt am Main : : Max Planck Institute for European Legal History,, 2018.; ©2018.
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Edition: First published.
• Language: Spanish
• Series: Global perspectives on legal history ; volume 5.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (316)
• Notes: Conference proceedings.

"Ecclesiastical institutions and actors were essential for the formation of normative orders in early modern Ibero-America. However, both legal historiography, due to its strong legalistic, state-centred imprint, and general historiography on colonial times, more inclined towards secular law, have only rarely discussed the contribution of ecclesiastical normativity to the formation of that normative texture which, in the historiographical tradition, has been called ‘derecho indiano’. In light of this situation, the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History has organised a series of seminars in different Latin American cities in order to offer an interdisciplinary forum dedicated to the research of ‘ecclesiastical normativities and institutions in Ibero-America’ between the 16th and 19th centuries. The present volume is the first in a series of publications that document the results of this cycle of seminars celebrated in Mexico City, Lima, Bogotá and São Paulo. The book, focusing on New Spain, is divided into five thematic parts. The first section presents investigations on canon law and moral theology that deal with characteristic aspects of multinormativity and the teaching of those disciplines in early modern times. The second section examines diocesan governance and ecclesiastical power in Mexico City and Puebla via statutes of the cathedral chapter, members of the ‘curia arzobispal’ and pertinent legal opinions. In the third section, the contributors reflect on the normativity and administration of sacraments, drawing on conciliar norms, treatises, pragmatic literature but as well on registers of baptisms and confessions. The fourth section deals with ethnic groups in courts of justice, both civil and ecclesiastic ones: indigenous people accused of ‘hechicería’ in a tribunal of Tlaxcala and Afro-Mexicans who started litigation in the archiepiscopal court of Mexico. The articles of the fifth section cover the topics of beatification, devotion and cultural expressions (music, 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, which at the same time are relevant for social and cultural history. The editors’ purpose has been to present approaches that explore the relationship between different types of normativities, their local adaptations, the 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 cultivate 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 in Spanish America."

Table of Contents

Una aproximación jurídico-teológica, siglo XVI. Principios, leyes y política para la cuestión de la tierra en Nueva España / Lara Semboloni -- Consideraciones sobre la doctrina del derecho de guerra de José de Acosta / Víctor Zorrilla -- Fuentes, autoridades y normas para la enseñanza del derecho canónico en el seminario de Puebla durante la época novohispana / Jesús Joel Peña Espinosa -- Los estatutos del cabildo de la catedral de México elaborados en el Tercer Concilio Provincial Mexicano (1585) / Jesús Vidal Gil -- Un poder eclesiástico criollo: los miembros de la curia arzobispal de México (1682-1747) / Rodolfo Aguirre -- Costumbre, necesidad sacramental y facultades sólitas en Puebla. Un dictamen de fray Mateo Estrada, O.P. (1783) / Sergio Francisco Rosas Salas -- 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 / Juan Carlos Casas García -- "La materia, la forma y el ministro". El bautizo de párvulos y adultos en la parroquia del Sagrario metropolitano de México (1690-1728) / Berenise Bravo Rubio -- Los padrones de confesión y comunión del Sagrario de México. Una aproximación a la praxis sacramental en el orden canónico indiano (1676-1825) / Claudia Ferreira Ascencio -- Indios acusados de hechicería ante el foro de justicia civil de la ciudad y provincia de Tlaxcala (siglo XVIII) / Olivia Luzán Cervantes -- 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) / María Leticia Vázquez Oropeza -- El impasse de una beatificación. El proceso de sor María de Jesús Tomellín (1597-1637), monja concepcionista poblana / Doris Bieñko de Peralta -- Música, rito y arquitectura en la Iglesia novohispana: clero regular y secular / Lourdes Turrent -- Inclusión de una nueva política de la imagen devocional en la arquidiócesis de México (1855-1896) / Gabriela Díaz Patiño.