Abstract
This article examines the role of the University of Mexico in the formation of the Ecclesiastical Cabildo of Mexico City in the second half of the 16th century, since it was in its classrooms that the learned men who would occupy key positions in the secular and ecclesiastical government of the kingdom of New Spain were groomed. They were the sons of the conquistadors and the earliest colonists who settled in the Indies. Thanks to the university, a local bureaucracy was created that would shape and consolidate the principal corporate bodies of the kingdom, including the Ecclesiastical Cabildo of Mexico. The text elucidates how the close relationship between these two corporate bodies benefitted the project of the secular Church and functioned to anchor the population of Spanish origin in New Spain.
Highlights
58 HIsTORICA XLI.2 / ISSN 0252-8894 created that would shape and consolidate the principal corporate bodies of the kingdom, including the Ecclesiastical Cabildo of Mexico
This article examines the role of the University of Mexico in the formation of the Ecclesiastical Cabildo of Mexico City in the second half of the 16th century, since it was in its classrooms that the learned men who would occupy key positions in the secular and ecclesiastical government of the kingdom of New Spain were groomed
The text elucidates how the close relationship between these two corporate bodies benefitted the project of the secular Church and functioned to anchor the population of Spanish origin in New Spain
Summary
Castillo flores La universidad y el Cabildo eclesiástico de México: siglo XVI 59 generalia, como se conoció a las universidades, se vieron favorecidos, además, por el renacimiento cultural y jurídico del siglo XII que, entre otras cosas, actualizó el derecho romano. La importancia cobrada por la teología, el derecho o la medicina, en una época de conquistas, reacomodos espaciales, pestes, descubrimientos y guerras de religión, revaloró el papel de los letrados que se formaban en las principales universidades occidentales. Entre los siglos XII y XV, las universidades se propagaron, con suerte diversa, por toda la Península. Respaldados por su clero, como señala Mariano Peset, buscaron crear universidades en su reino para así contar con cuadros burocráticos letrados, evitar que los estudiantes viajaran largas distancias —y descuidaran, cuando de prebendados se trataba, sus catedrales— e impedir que los dineros derramados en otras ciudades salieran de la Península.
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