Honor and Personhood in Early Modern Mexico

Osvaldo F. Pardo examines the early dissemination of European views on law and justice among Mexico's native peoples. Newly arrived from Spain in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, mendicant friars brought not only their faith in the authority of the Catholic Church but also their reverence of the monarchy. Drawing on a rich range of documents dating from this era-including secular and ecclesiastical legislation, legal and religious treatises, bilingual catechisms, grammars on indigen...