"Casadas dos veces". Women and inquisitors facing the crime of female bigamy, in the Viceroyalty of Peru (16th and 17th)

  • Fernanda Molina
Keywords: female bigamy, casadas dos veces, marriage, inquisition, Viceroyalty of Peru

Abstract

This article aims to inquire the phenomenon of female bigamy through court proceedings initiated by the Tribunal of the Holy Office in the Viceroyalty of Peru during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Analyzing the doctrinal corpus on duplici matrimonio and relaciones de causa de fe produced by the tribunal, it poses a discussion on how Peruvian inquisitors interpreted female bigamy, whether as a sign of heresy or sexual transgression. Moreover the opinions and attitudes of bigamous women in view of the crime, during the trials proper, are also analyzed. 

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Molina, F. (1). "Casadas dos veces". Women and inquisitors facing the crime of female bigamy, in the Viceroyalty of Peru (16th and 17th). Memoria Americana. Cuadernos De Etnohistoria, 25(1), 31-46. https://doi.org/10.34096/mace.v25i1.3912
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Convocatoria Abierta