To browse Academia. Eukene Lacarra Lanz. Michelle Armstrong-Partida. Shunichi Akasaka. Cecilia Cristellon. The main sources of this article are matrimonial trials discussed before the ecclesiastical court in Venice This article analyzes the differing conceptions of marriage held by the laity and by the ecclesiastical hierarchy as these ideas were expressed in a dialectical relationship in court.
Central to this analysis is the concept of consent, since consent, with widely differing interpretations, formed the foundation and the essence of both canonical and lay customary marriage. In the pre-Tridentine ecclesiastical court, custom played a leading role in deciding matters related to the marriage bond.
These sources allow access to aspects of marriage that are usually not recorded and make it possible to reevaluate social phenomena which have been defined from a post-Tridentine perspective as transgressive. Practices such as bigamy, concubinage, and stuprum appear not as deviant, but as part of socially accepted marital behavior that is much broader and more heterogeneous than historians have appreciated.
Lisa Vollendorf. Guillaume Candela. This article studies the role of the mujeres enamoradas, a category of prostitute during the Spanish conquest of the Rio de la Plata. A long judicial process found in the National Archives of Paraguay describes the attitude of the Spanish elites and their control over Spanish whores. This essay shows how these women were powerful agents in this region and aims to understand the daily life of these invisible actors and women in conquest era society.
It examines the complex network between Spanish women and different colonial subjects to understand women's spaces of power in early colonial Rio de la Plata. Megan Armstrong. Hanne-Mette Alsos Raae. Jose David Vega Jimenez. Umar Usman Hamsheer.
