Barely known old legal texts come to light : [Rezension zu: Juan Fernando Cobo Betancourt, Natalie Cobo (eds.), La legislación de la arquidiócesis de Santafé en el período colonial (Colección Biblioteca del Nuevo Reino de Granada), Bogotá: ICANH 2018, LX + 810 p., ISBN 978-958-8852-31-7]
- In the recent historiography on the canon law of the early modern Spanish Empire, legal historians have been considering many forms of normativity. Nevertheless, law still remains, and there is no reason to think otherwise, as a primary source of legal orders. In the case of canon law, many of the legislations drafted remained largely unknown due to their lack of recognitio by the Holy See and pase regio granted by the Spanish Monarch. Such texts were not printed and only circulated in manuscript form, likely resulting in a very low and uncertain degree of compliance. During the 20thcentury, gradually but fragmentally, many of these texts became known in academic publications. The book reviewed here finally gathers together in a single volume all the legislative texts drafted at church assemblies celebrated in the archdiocese of Santafé (today Bogotá) before 1625. ...
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