Abstract

RUBIO HERNANDEZ, Alfonso. THE LAW IN THE ARCHIVE: REPRESENTATIONS OF POWER IN COLONIAL CABILDOS OF NEW GRANADA. hist.crit. [online]. 2010, n.42, pp.10-35. ISSN 0121-1617.

From written depositions taken for the Cabildo of the City of Medellín, in the exercise of its functions as a dependent colonial institution of New Granada, and as a model of how other colonial cabildos operated, we offer evidence of the symbolic power wielded by the law, either through typologies of different kinds of documents, such as the Reales Provisiones or Reales Cedulas, or through published compilations in the three or four volumes comprising the Recopilación de las Leyes de Indias of 1680 that, by law, had to be safeguarded in the "arca triclave" of the cabildo.

Keywords : Law; Recopilación de las Leyes de Indias; representation; power; cabildos; New Granada.

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