Gabriel Carrasco, Francisco González, and Luisa de Abrego each faced the charge of bigamy within one decade of each other in Mexico City, between 1565 and 1575. Together, their cases tell a micro-history of bigamy, marriage, and community in New Spain and on its frontiers, one that illustrates the centrality of community. Historians have pointed to the importance of studying community in bigamy cases, and more broadly to the connections between community and marriage. However, a close reading of these three cases takes the connection further and brings together disparate conclusions about why and how bigamy took place. First and foremost, a desire for community membership played a critical, if not principal, role in each individual’s motiva...
Though divorce followed by remarriage was illegal in early modern England, a considerable number of ...
In 1639, Massachusetts Bay colonists pressed Governor John Winthrop to adopt a body of laws that w...
Abordamos la evolución de la legislación histórica relativa al matrimonio y a los bienes gananciales...
Gabriel Carrasco, Francisco González, and Luisa de Abrego each faced the charge of bigamy within one...
“Marriage, Bigamy, and the Inquisition” explores the formation and dissolution of intimate marital p...
Graduation date: 2017Following a history of tensions surrounding concubinage in medieval and early m...
During the Early Modern Period, the crime of bigamy was considered as a terrible sin, in peninsular ...
<p>"For Better or Worse: Divorce and Annulment Lawsuits in Colonial Mexico (1544-1799)" uses petiti...
This dissertation studies the development of ecclesiastical courts in medieval Europe and their impl...
This dissertation centers on the administration of criminal justice by the civil and ecclesiastical ...
Se trataría de analizar el fenómeno de la bigamia femenina en el México colonial. A través de los pr...
This study examines the way that enslaved and free blacks and mulattos in seventeenth-century New Sp...
This dissertation explores the history of family life in northwestern Mexico between 1800 and 1850 t...
This dissertation attempts to understand the diverse social norms that existed in central Mexico fro...
Además de los sentimientos, mentalidad y circunstancias antropológicas y sociales, que se descubren...
Though divorce followed by remarriage was illegal in early modern England, a considerable number of ...
In 1639, Massachusetts Bay colonists pressed Governor John Winthrop to adopt a body of laws that w...
Abordamos la evolución de la legislación histórica relativa al matrimonio y a los bienes gananciales...
Gabriel Carrasco, Francisco González, and Luisa de Abrego each faced the charge of bigamy within one...
“Marriage, Bigamy, and the Inquisition” explores the formation and dissolution of intimate marital p...
Graduation date: 2017Following a history of tensions surrounding concubinage in medieval and early m...
During the Early Modern Period, the crime of bigamy was considered as a terrible sin, in peninsular ...
<p>"For Better or Worse: Divorce and Annulment Lawsuits in Colonial Mexico (1544-1799)" uses petiti...
This dissertation studies the development of ecclesiastical courts in medieval Europe and their impl...
This dissertation centers on the administration of criminal justice by the civil and ecclesiastical ...
Se trataría de analizar el fenómeno de la bigamia femenina en el México colonial. A través de los pr...
This study examines the way that enslaved and free blacks and mulattos in seventeenth-century New Sp...
This dissertation explores the history of family life in northwestern Mexico between 1800 and 1850 t...
This dissertation attempts to understand the diverse social norms that existed in central Mexico fro...
Además de los sentimientos, mentalidad y circunstancias antropológicas y sociales, que se descubren...
Though divorce followed by remarriage was illegal in early modern England, a considerable number of ...
In 1639, Massachusetts Bay colonists pressed Governor John Winthrop to adopt a body of laws that w...
Abordamos la evolución de la legislación histórica relativa al matrimonio y a los bienes gananciales...