Abstract

GIL-YEPES, Julián-Andrés. Honor, Dishonor, and Justice: insults in the Real Audiencia de Santafe (1560-1662). Hist. Soc. [online]. 2023, n.44, pp.128-153.  Epub Feb 21, 2024. ISSN 0121-8417.  https://doi.org/10.15446/hys.n44.102318.

The honor played a fundamental role in the social hierarchization of the Hispanic culture, both peninsular an American, becoming one of the pillars of the society. For this reason, insults took an important role in daily life, because it allows honor to be analyzed before, during and after a direct insult, evidencing the way in which it was exercised, defended, lost, and recovered. Thus, this paper gave an account of a quantitative and qualitative investigation of the phenomena of insults in the Audiencia de Santafe, between 1560 and 1662, through an analysis of criminal proceedings, laws, and the meaning of the different types of insults identified. In this way, it became evident the differential way in which honor was exercised by men, women, monarchical officials, and clerics, based on the way in which it was damaged. In addition, it was identified that the insults used to be about moral, religious, biological and gender discourses. The results give rise to consider the insult, as a cultural phenomenon with a double meaning, because while it represents a transgression of the social order, it reproduces and strengthens the same order that it transgresses.

Keywords : Honor; insult; justice administration; Real Audiencia de Santafé; Nuevo Reino de Granada, Indianous law; Latin American history; Latin American culture; 16^th centurie; 17^th centurie.

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