«If They Remained as Mere Words»: Trent, Marriage, and Freedom in the Viceroyalty of Peru, Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries

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Keywords:

Materias Investigacion::Arte y Humanidades
Council of Trent
Coercion
Marital life
Consent
Viceroyalty of Peru
Marriage
Freedom

Issue Date:

2016

Publisher:

Cambridge University Press

Publisher Version:

http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S000316151600002X

ISSN:

0003-1615
1533-6247

Editorial note:

This article was first published in The Americas

Citation:

Latasa, P. ""«If They Remained as Mere Words»: Trent, Marriage, and Freedom in the Viceroyalty of Peru, Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries"". The Americas, Volume 73, Issue 1 January 2016, pp. 13-38

Abstract

The right of persons to marry without coercion and live their marriage freely was one of the foremost and frequently mentioned topics among synod and council fathers, moralists, and canon lawyers in colonial Spanish America. Within the territory of the viceroyalty of Peru, the recommendations of the Council of Trent in this regard took the form of a new set of ecclesiastical regulations, derived from synods and councils that occurred from the sixteenth through the eighteenth century.

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https://hdl.handle.net/10171/42110

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