IMPERIAL CONVIVIALITY: What Medieval Spanish Legal Practice Can Teach Us About Colonial Latin America Karen Graubart

Convivialidade imperial: o que a prática jurídica espanhola medieval pode nos ensinar sobre a América Latina colonial

ABSTRACT

Late medieval and early modern Iberian monarchs governed through a competitive delegation of certain forms of jurisdiction. This created a tense form of everyday conviviality, wherein group members were intimately knowledgeable about aspects of the laws of other groups. The analytic of conviviality reveals the ways that consensus had to be constantly renegotiated within multiple group dynamics rather than imposed or achieved.

KEYWORDS:
law; republics; indigenous peoples