Open AccessRazón y secreto en los registros notariales virreinales. Madrid, Lima y Santiago de Chile (1670-1720)
Author(s) -
Aude Argouse
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
historia crítica/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/histcrit60.2016.02
Subject(s) - documentation , identity (music) , monarchy , humanities , economic justice , political science , ethnology , sociology , history , law , art , aesthetics , politics , computer science , programming language
What was at stake in the process of notarial registration? Through the analysis of three situations that arose during the Catholic Monarchy between 1670 and 1720 in the territories of Spain, Peru and Chile, this article explores diverse social and cultural tensions perceived in the process of recording notarial documents and in the circulation of records and persons. It reveals a range of distances among facts, truth and the administration of justice. The writing appears to be a dialogue: the will of the grantors — either individual or collective strategies to express sentiments and decisions— are mixed with the ink of the clerks who were transcribing, co-authors whose identity is unknown but whose mark can nonetheless be seen in the documentation