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Between Potosí and El Dorado: arbitrismo and political communication in early seventeenth-century Peru.

The article discusses how historians have considered petitions sent to the Spanish Crown by subjects from any social stratum shaped royal decrees. It notes that the Council of the Indies, governing body of the Spanish Americas since 1524, divided its weekly work into four sessions dealing with gobie...

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Published in:Colonial Latin American Review Vol. 29; no. 1; pp. 47 - 73
Main Author: de Carvalho, Francismar Alex Lopes
Format: Article
Published: Taylor & Francis Ltd Mar2020
Subjects:
Political communication
Historians
Delegated legislation
Monarchy
Social stratification
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost
Summary:The article discusses how historians have considered petitions sent to the Spanish Crown by subjects from any social stratum shaped royal decrees. It notes that the Council of the Indies, governing body of the Spanish Americas since 1524, divided its weekly work into four sessions dealing with gobierno issues, with the colonial royal treasury. It adds that the profusion of arbitrios or memoriales in the archives leaves no doubt about the consultative character of the Spanish monarchy.