Antecedentes históricos de la “abogacía telúrica” desarrollada en Chile entre los siglos XVI y XIX | Zendy

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Antecedentes históricos de la “abogacía telúrica” desarrollada en Chile entre los siglos XVI y XIX

Author(s) -

Alfredo Palacios Roa

Publication year - 2014

Publication title -

historia crítica

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.2

H-Index - 8

eISSN - 1900-6152

pISSN - 0121-1617

DOI - 10.7440/histcrit54.2014.09

Subject(s) - humanities , art

The earthquakes that struck Chile between the 16th and 19th centuries — together with the lack of rational explanations of their causes — led the settlers of the Kingdom of Chile, as well as many inhabitants of the cities founded on the western margin of the Circumpacific Belt, to interpret them as punishments sent by God as a result of their worldly faults and sins. Consequently, some groups had to resort to the designated “celestial lawyers,” specialists in telluric matters, to try to overcome the conjunctural situations generated by every earthquake

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