This article examines how notaries, who had the power to register people’s words and actions in official records, did their business. The author asks how the notaries registered judicial processes, in whose name they did it, and what were the vested interests involved in the processes.

No presenta resumen.

Tomo 2. Páginas 1105-1114

This article examines how notaries, who had the power to register people’s words and actions in official records, did their business. The author asks how the notaries registered judicial processes, in whose name they did it, and what were the vested interests involved in the processes.

No presenta resumen.

This article examines how notaries, who had the power to register people’s words and actions in official records, did their business. The author asks how the notaries registered judicial processes, in whose name they did it, and what were the vested interests involved in the processes.

The first religious institutions in Peru dedicated themselves not only to winning the hearts and minds of the Andean people, but to displacing their religion, taking control of their ritual centers and earthly resources. Thus we have, in the center of the ancient empire, the monastery of Santo Domingo above the maximum temple of Coricancha, in an architectural "manifesto" very typical of the time.