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BERRIO, Paola Andrea. Ynformacion que va para el Real consejo de las Yndias etc. Sobre la antigua costubre de tirar los pres identes y oidores naranjas en las carnestolendas y del contento quel pueblo e honrra en ello a rrecibido [1578]. Hist. Soc. [online]. 2017, n.33, pp.365-396. ISSN 0121-8417.  https://doi.org/10.15446/hys.n33.61817.

In 1578, the prosecutor of the Audiencia of Santo Domingo, Diego de Villanueva Zapata, began a report on the celebration of Shrovetide in the city, by the active participation of the royal authorities who threw oranges. It is one of the few testimonies for America of this type of festivities in the sixteenth century of the Spanish. It also shows a political change that was taking place within the Spanish Crown with respect to the celebrations. While Charles V allowed such celebrations in his empire, Felipe II was less enthusiastic about them. In this way, the departure from popular culture and learned culture began to take shape, which Mijaíl Bajtín points out as being “fully” shaped in the seventeenth century, when Carnival culture began to look at itself with distrust, not only with regard to the participation of the authorities, but of all individuals.

Palabras clave : carnival; popular culture; orange war; Santo Domingo; 16th century..

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