The Crown and Religious Reform in Bourbon Peru, 1700-1825

Examines the complex and conflictive relationship between the Spanish Crown and the Roman Catholic Church in Peru over more than a century, analyzing the efforts of the Bourbon crown and religious reformers to transform the role of the Church in society.

Based primarily on the author’s years of archival research in Peru, Spain, and Italy, Andrien’s magisterial study provides the first direct examination of the Bourbon reform of the Church in late-colonial Peru, examining its ongoing tensions...