Knowledge of the Pragmatici

Legal and Moral Theological Literature and the Formation of Early Modern Ibero-America
Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-90-04-42162-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 1, 382 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 712 g

Reihe: Max Planck Studies in Global Legal History of the Iberian Worlds

Knowledge of the pragmatici sheds new light on pragmatic normative literature (mainly from the religious sphere), a genre crucial for the formation of normative orders in early modern Ibero-America. Long underrated by legal historical scholarship, these media – manuals for confessors, catechisms, and moral theological literature – selected and localised normative knowledge for the colonial worlds and thus shaped the language of normativity.

The eleven chapters of this book explore the circulation and the uses of pragmatic normative texts in the Iberian peninsula, in New Spain, Peru, New Granada and Brazil. The book reveals the functions and intellectual achievements of pragmatic literature, which condensed normative knowledge, drawing on medieval scholarly practices of ‘epitomisation’, and links the genre with early modern legal culture.

Contributors are: Manuela Bragagnolo, Agustín Casagrande, Otto Danwerth, Thomas Duve, José Luis Egío, Renzo Honores, Gustavo César Machado Cabral, Pilar Mejía, Christoph H. F. Meyer, Osvaldo Moutin, and David Rex Galindo.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Duve, Thomas

Danwerth, Otto

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsgeschichte, Recht der Antike

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

List of Illustrations

Notes on Contributors

1 Pragmatic Normative Literature and the Production of Normative Knowledge in the Early Modern Iberian Empires (16th–17th Centuries)

Thomas Duve

2 Putting Roman and Canon Law in a Nutshell: Developments in the Epitomisation of Legal Texts between Late Antiquity and the Early Modern Period

Christoph H.F. Meyer

3 The Circulation of Pragmatic Normative Literature in Spanish America (16th– 17th Centuries)

Otto Danwerth

4 Presence and Use of Pragmatic Legal Literature in Habsburg Peru (16th– 17th Centuries)

Renzo Honores

5 Jesuit Pragmatic Literature and Ecclesiastical Normativity in Portuguese America (16th– 18th Centuries)

Gustavo César Machado Cabral

6 Managing Legal Knowledge in Early Modern Times: Martín de Azpilcueta’s Manual for Confessors and the Phenomenon of Epitomisation

Manuela Bragagnolo

7 Pragmatic or Heretic? Editing Catechisms in Mexico in the Age of Discoveries and Reformation (1539– 1547)

José Luis Egío

8 Producing Pragmatic Literature in the Third Mexican Provincial Council (1585)

Osvaldo R. Moutin

9 Shaping Colonial Behaviours: Franciscan Missionary Literature and the Implementation of Religious Normative Knowledge in Colonial Mexico (1530s–1640s)

David Rex Galindo

10 “Just Rules” for a “Religiosity of Simple People”: Devotional Literature and Inquisitorial Trials in Cartagena de Indias (17th– 18th Centuries)

Pilar Mejía

11 Forensic Practices and the “History of Justice” in the 17th and 18th Centuries: a View from a Spanish American Periphery

Agustín Casagrande

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Thomas Duve is Director at the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History (Frankfurt am Main) and Professor for Comparative Legal History at the Goethe University Frankfurt. His research focuses on the legal history of the early modern age and the modern era.

Otto Danwerth is Head of the editorial department at the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History (Frankfurt am Main). His research areas are early modern Spain and Ibero-America until the eighteenth century, with a focus on the Andean region.