From the department of Historical Regimes of Normativity at the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory

Tracking colonial women in the Latin-American archives: challenges, lawsuits, and flavors

Why are people so sure that women are not in the archives?
This question serves as a starting point for a reflection on archival institutions and the challenges of uncovering women’s traces and voices within their collections. Drawing from my experience, the archival research provided me different flavors and at least one undeniable truth: women are always present in the sources, even in periods when efforts were made to silence them.

El «enigma de Ingolstadt»: la historia de un cartapacio

En el curso 1547-1548 Melchor Cano pronunció dos relecciones teológicas ante el claustro de la universidad de Salamanca. Dos años más tarde las llevó personalmente a la imprenta salmantina de Portonariis. La historia de un cartapacio encontrado en Ingolstadt da un viraje a la edición crítica del texto.

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