Township of Springfield, Estados Unidos
El siguiente trabajo tiene como objetivos revisar brevemente la vida de Juan de Villagutierre y Sotomayor, relator del Consejo de Indias a finales del siglo XVII e inicios del XVIII, y explorar de forma general el contenido de una de sus obras dedicada a la historia de la entonces provincia de Nuevo México. Este manuscrito, muy poco conocido, es único en su género por varias razones; una de ellas es el hecho de que la obra puede considerarse como una revisión general del territorio y su gente, ya que incluye su historia indígena, hispánica, y colonial. La otra es que el discurso de la obra ofrece una interpretación secular de la historia, por lo que los personajes principales que aparecen en la narración pertenecen a la esfera civil de la Corona española, y no a la religiosa.
The following essay has the purpose of both briefly reviewing the life of Juan de Villagutierre y Sotomayor, relator of the Council of the Indies at the end of the 17th century and the beginning of the 18th century, and to explore the content of one of his lesser known works, which he dedicated to the history of the then Province of New Mexico. This last manuscript is unique for several reasons; one of them is the fact that this work can be considered as one of the first general revisions of the history of the New Mexico territory and its inhabitants, since this manuscript includes details on the indigenous past of the province, and focuses generally on its Pre-Hispanic, conquest and colonial history. The other reason that makes this work unique is that the discourse of the work offers for the first time a secular interpretation of the history of New Mexico, which explains the reason why the author focused his narrative on the main characters that belong more to the civil sphere of the Spanish crown, rather than focusing his narration on those protagonists who belonged to the religious sphere.
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