Bourbon absolutism and marriage reform in late colonial Spanish America

Americas

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 475-509

  Saether, Steinar A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH EASTERN NORWAY   (Norway)

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EID: 30744436999     PISSN: 00031615     EISSN: 15336247     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/tam.2003.0056     Document Type: Review

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1. For studies done prior to 1990, consult Asunción Lavrín (ed.), Sexuality and Marriage in Colonial Latin America (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1989)
2. Daisy Ripodas Ardanáz, El Matrimonio en Indias. Realidad social y regulación jurídica (Buenos Aires: FECIC, 1977), pp. 259-315
3. See also Ann Twinam, Public Lives, Private Secrets: Gender, Honor, Sexuality and Illegitimacy in Colonial Spanish America (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000), pp. 308-309
4. See for instance Susan Socolow, The Women of Colonial Latin America (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), pp. 173-174
5. and Lavrín, "Introduction" in Lavrín (ed.), Sexuality and Marriage, p. 18
6. For discussions on the Catholic enlightenment see Samuel J. Miller, "Portugal and Utrecht: A Phase of the Catholic Enlightenment," The Catholic Historical Review 43 (1977), pp. 225-248
7. David Brading, "Tridentine Catholisism and Enlightened Despotism in Bourbon Mexico" Journal of Latin American Studies 15 (1983), pp. 1-22
8. Santoni Maruti, Teologia e politica nel giansenismo lombardo (Milano: NED, 1998)
9. Jöel Sagnieux, Les jansénistes et le renouveau de la prédication dans l'Espagne de la seconde moitié du XVIIIe siècle (Lyon: Presses Universitaires de Lyon, 1976)
10. Mario Gongora, "Enlightenment, Enlightened Despotism and Ideological Crisis" in Gongora, Studies in the Colonial History of Spanish America (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1975)
11. and Domenico Ambrasi, Riformatori e ribelli a Napoli nella seconda metá del settecento: Richerche sul giansenismo napoletano (Napoli: Luigi Regiina, 1979)
12. Castro, Campomanes, pp. 128-129
13. For the expulsion of the Jesuits from Spanish America, see Magnus Mörner (ed.), The Expulsion of the Jesuits from Latin America (New York: Alfred E. Knopf, 1967)
14. Konetzke, Colección de documentos, vol. 3, tomol, pp. 406-413
15. Ann Twinam, Public Lives, Private Secrets, p. 307
16. See Patricia Seed, To Love, Honor and Obey in Colonial Mexico. Conflicts over Marriage Choice, 1574-1821 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1988)
17. and Asunción Lavrín, "Introduction " in Lavrín (ed.), Sexuality and Marriage, p. 18
18. Konetzke, Colección de documentos, pp. 401-402
19. John McManners, Church and Society in Eighteenth-Century France (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998) vol. II, p. 22
20. and Lawrence Stone, Uncertain Unions. Marriage in England 1660-1753 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992)
21. For a discussion of the late Roman legislation on marriages see Judith Evan Grubbs: Law and Family in Late Antiquity: The Emperor Constantine's Marriage Legislation (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1995)
22. See Evans Grubbs, Law and Family, p. 95 and 141
23. Pragmática sanción, Chapter VII in Konetzke, Colección de documentos, p. 409
24. For the teachings of Bossuet, see Patrick Riley (ed.), Bossuet. Politics drawn from the Very Words of Holy Scripture (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990)
25. Anthony McFarlane: "Representaciones políticas y políticas de representación en Hispanoamérica a finales del período colonial." Paper presented at the XII International Congress of the Asociación de historioadores europeos latinoamericanistas (AHILA), 1999
26. Cited by McFarlane: "Representaciones políticas," pp. 3-4
27. There are many studies on the opposition to Bourbon reforms in Spanish America. Various historians have seen the opposition as expression of an older Habsburgian "pactist" notion of monarchy. See for instance, John Phelan, The People and the King. The Comunero Revolution in Colombia, 1781 (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1976)
28. Anthony McFarlane, "Rebellions in Late Colonial Spanish America: A Comparative Perspective," Bulletin of Latin American Research 14 (1995)
29. and François-Xavier Guerra, Modernidad e independencias. Ensayos sobre las revoluciones hispánicas (Madrid: MAPFRE, 1992)
30. See also Josep M. Barnadas, "The Catholic Church in Colonial Spanish America" in Leslie Bethell (ed.), Cambridge History of Latin America (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984) vol II, pp. 537-538
31. and Vicente Pérez Moreda, "Del mosáico al calidoscopio: componentes culturales en los sistemas de nupcialidad, fecundidad y familia de España y América hispana (ss. XVI-XIX)" in Robert Rowland and Isabel Mott Blanc (eds.), La demografía y la historia de la familia (Murcia: Universidad de Murcia, 1997)
32. e siècles) (Paris: Sorbonne, 1985), p. 80
33. All these figures are from Dueñas Vargas, Los hijos del pecado: Ilegimitdad y vida familias en la Santafé de Bogotá colonial (Bogotá, Editorial Universidad Nacional, 1997), pp. 205-243
34. Thomas Calvo, "Concubinato y mestizaje en el medio urbano: el caso de Guadalajara en el siglo XVII" Revista de Indias 44:173 (1984), pp. 203-212
35. Cecilia Andrea Rabell, La población novohispana a la luz (Mexico: Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales, Universidad National Autónoma de México, 1990)
36. Robert McCaa, "Gustos de los padres, inclinaciones de los novios y reglas de una feria nupcial colonial: Parral, 1770-1814" Historia mexicana 40:4 (1991), pp. 579-614
37. McCaa, "Marriageways," p. 24
38. Susan Socolow: "Acceptable Partners: Marriage Choice in Colonial Argentina, 1778-1810" in Lavrín (ed.): Sexuality and Marriage, p. 210 claims that the law only applied to whites
39. See for instance Seed, To Love, Honor and Obey, pp. 205-225
40. Gutiérrez, When Jesus Came, p. 315
41. Gonzalo Vial, "Aplicación en Chile de la Pragmatica sobre matrionio de los hijos de familia," Revista chilena de historia del derecho 6 (1970), pp. 335-362
42. Real cédula 31 May 1783 "Declarando que los hijos de familia mayores de veinte y cinco años, para contrarier matrimonio, deben pedir, y obtener el consejo paterno..." in AGI, Sta Fe 727
43. and Miller, "Bourban Social Engineering."
44. "Expediente del Cavildo Secular de Merida de Yucatan, sobre los matrimonios que se executaban por los Menores sin el consejo Paterno" in AGI, Sta Fe 727
45. Cited in "Real cédula para que se observe lo determinado sobre unas dudas acerca de la pragmática sobre matrimonios de los hijos de familia" in Konetzke, Colección de documentos, pp. 623-625
46. "Carta del obispo de Cartagena de Indias, Dn Joseph Díaz de la Madrid, del 29 de octobre 1784" in AGI, Sta Fe 727
47. "Copia de Carta de Don Manuel Reyna al gobernador y capitan general de Caracas" 15 December 1783 in AGI, Sta Fe 727
48. "Consulta del Consejo de Indias del 29 de agosto 1788" in AGI, Sta Fe 727
49. "Carta de la Real Audiencia de Santa Fe a V M del 19 de abril de 1794" in AGI, Santa Fe 727
50. "Copia de autos relativo a la petición de licencia para contraer matrimonio entre Jose María Sanchez y de Movellan y Maria Ignacia Mier" in AGI, Sta Fe 727
51. See Paolo Ungari, Il diritto di famiglia, p. 40
52. The Spanish translations of the Austrian codes may be found in AHN, Estado, leg. 3027
53. See Verena Martínez-Alier, Marriage, Class and Colour in Nineteenth-Century Cuba. A study of Racial Attitudes and Sexual Values in a Slave Society 2. ed. (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1989), pp. 11-12