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'Mejor Amancebada que Mal Casada' : Rhetoric and Practice of Amancebamiento in Seventeenth-Century New Spain

Creator:

Hisey, Aimee

Abstract:

Following a history of tensions surrounding concubinage in medieval and early modern Spain, the Church sought greater control of religious life, particularly over the sacrament of marriage, via the Holy Office of the Inquisition. The Church exercised its strengthened restrictions and prosecuted these relationships with more frequency, as did civil...

Resource Type:

Masters Thesis

Full Text:

would like to express my sincere appreciation to my graduate committee: Professors Fina Carpena-Mendez