Knowledge of the Pragmatici : Legal and Moral Theological Literature and the Formation of Early Modern Ibero-America / Thomas Duve and Otto Danwerth.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Duve, Thomas, 1967- author.

Danwerth, Otto, author.

Series:

Max Planck studies in global legal history of the Iberian worlds ; Volume 1.

Max Planck Studies in Global Legal History of the Iberian Worlds Series ; Volume 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Church history.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Brill 2020

Leiden, Netherlands : Koninklijke Brill NV, [2020]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"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, Agusti´n Casagrande, Otto Danwerth, Thomas Duve, Jose´ Luis Egi´o, Renzo Honores, Gustavo Ce´sar Machado Cabral, Pilar Meji´a, Christoph H. F. Meyer, Osvaldo Moutin, and David Rex Galindo"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Pragmatic Normative Literature and the Production of Normative Knowledge in the Early Modern Iberian Empires in the 16th- 17th Centuries / Thomas Duve

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

The Circulation of Pragmatic Normative Literature in Spanish America (16th- 17th Centuries) / Otto Danwerth

Presence and Use of Pragmatic Legal Literature in Habsburg Peru (16th- 17th Centuries) / Renzo Honores

Jesuit Pragmatic Literature and Ecclesiastical Normativity in Portuguese America (16th- 18th Centuries) / Gustavo Ce´sar Machado Cabral

Managing Legal Knowledge in Early Modern Times : Marti´n de Azpilcueta's Manual for Confessors and the Phenomenon of Epitomisation / Manuela Bragagnolo

Pragmatic or Heretic? : Editing Catechisms in Mexico in the Age of Discoveries and Reformation (1539-1547) / Jose´ Luis Egi´o

Producing Pragmatic Literature in the Third Mexican Provincial Council, 1585 / Osvaldo R. Moutin

Shaping Colonial Behaviours : Franciscan Missionary Literature and the

Implementation of Religious Normative Knowledge in Colonial Mexico, 1530-1640s / David Rex Galindo

"Just Rules" for a "Religiosity of Simple People" : Devotional Literature and Inquisitorial Trials in Cartagena de Indias (17th- 18th Centuries) / Pilar Meji´a

Forensic Practices and the "History of Justice" in the 17th and 18th Centuries : a View from a Spanish American Periphery / Agusti´n Casagrande.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-42573-X

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004425736 DOI

Access Restriction:

Unrestricted online access