Idolatria y justicia regia en la Nueva Espana del siglo XVII

Abstract

The objective of this paper is to follow the concept of idolatry based on civil and ecclesiastical legal considerations in the first half of the seventeenth century, after the publication of the decrees of the Concilio Tercero Provincial Mexicano of 1585 and some royal laws that emerged in the context of the publication of those decrees. The sources we use include documents from the Archivo General de la Nación, from the section Indiferente Virreinal. We also use printed primary sources, as well as bibliography consultation. We divide the article into three sections: the first, one is an analysis of idolatry in the context after the Third Council of 1585. A second, one that reviews the laws in the Recopilación de Indias (1680) and, a third, one that consists of an analysis of correspondence that two religious sent to the Inquisition to request its intervention due to the participation of civil authorities in religious issues.