The manuscript of the Testimony and the Summary of the Holy Office that collects the case of Luisa Benites is in the National Historical Archive, in Madrid, under the signature Inquisition, file 1648, number 6. The manuscripts contain 55 pages in the case of the Testimony and 287 folios, in...
This work is the first history of the Royal and Pontifical University of San Marcos in Lima, the oldest university on the American continent. In the first part of the text, a brief biography of the author is given: Fray Antonio de la Calancha. This Augustinian of the Viceroyalty of...
The present edition, by María Inés Zaldívar Ovalle, gives the reader the Relationship that leaves upon his government Mr. Francisco de Borja y Aragón, Prince of Esquilache, viceroy of Peru between 1615 and 1621, and the subsequent Judgment of the Royal Council of the Indies, in 1626. It also includes,...
The occupation of the territory during the construction of the Spanish Empire was not only a movement carried out by European migrants who crossed the Atlantic to settle in the Caribbean and in the Spanish-American territories, there were also men who sailed from the coasts of the Viceroys, expressing the...
When we think on the economy of the American viceroyalties, we consider immediately the extraction of natural resources and the creation of new enterprises or industries in the New World. Few scholars, except persons like María del Pilar Martínez López-Cano, have taken the responsibility of studying how credit was the...
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra was a pilgrim in fiction and in the real life. He was in Algiers, Italy and Portugal, but could not fulfill his dream of arriving in America. However, he applied to more than one post in the West Indies to serve as a Crown official. The...
Taken from the Portal de Archivos Españoles: Informaciones de oficio y parte: Monasterio de Nuestra Señora de la Limpia Concepción de Lima, fundado por Inés Muñoz de Ribera, su abadesa. Constan su primer y segundo maridos, Francisco Martín de Alcántara y Antonio de Ribera, su hijo Antonio de Ribera y...
This catalog, prepared by Luis Romera Iruela and María del Carmen Galbin Diez, provides information on the personal data and on the geographical origin of the passengers coming to the Indies. These files seized information from the files of passengers who came to America to perform various crafts: as specialists...
At the end of the government of a Viceroy, this authority prepared a memorial in which he reported on the events lived in the kingdom during his administration, the possibilities that could be exploited in the future, among other matters. The aim was that the new Viceroy could learn this...
At the end of the government of a Viceroy, this authority prepared a memorial in which he reported on the events lived in the kingdom during his administration, the possibilities that could be exploited in the future, among other matters. The aim was that the new Viceroy could learn this...
At the end of the government of a Viceroy, this authority prepared a memorial in which he reported on the events lived in the kingdom during his administration, the possibilities that could be exploited in the future, among other matters. The aim was that the new Viceroy could learn this...
At the end of the government of a Viceroy, this authority prepared a memorial in which he reported on the events lived in the kingdom during his administration, the possibilities that could be exploited in the future, among other matters. The aim was that the new Viceroy could learn this...