Indian Marriage Before and After the Council of Trent: From pre-Hispanic Marriage to Christian Marriage in New Spain

This article, based on the canonical norms and the manuals for parish priests in its various modal- ities, analyses the problems of assimilating marriage practices among Indians, as well as the discussions and the solutions adopted by the first canonists of New Spain. These relied on natural law...

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Published in:	Rechtsgeschichte - Legal History
Main Author:	Ana de Zaballa Beascoechea
Format:	Article
Language:	German
Published:	Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory 2019-01-01
Subjects:	Marriage history Trent Indian marriage pre-Hispanic marriage canon law in colonial Spanish America
Online Access:	http://data.rg.mpg.de/rechtsgeschichte/rg27-90zaballa.pdf