Introduction: canon law and its practice in colonial Latin America

• Jorge E. Traslosheros ^[1]
  1. [1] Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

     Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

     México

     
• Localización: The Americas: A quarterly review of inter-american cultural history, ISSN 0003-1615, Vol. 73, Nº. 1 (January), 2016, págs. 3-11
• Idioma: inglés
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  • The three papers included here, written by Ana de Zaballa, Pilar Latasa, and Gabriela Ramos, constitute a highly professional effort within the study of canon law in colonial Spanish America. These papers allow us to perceive how closely linked pastoral concerns, legal imagination, and judicial practices were during that period. To fully appreciate the importance of these four investigations, we must first briefly lay out the current state of academic studies in canon law in “las Indias Occidentales,” what today is generally called viceregal or colonial Spanish America.