Devoción y patronazgo en la ciudad de México. La representación del poder capitular en las festividades religiosas

Abstract

This work arises from the will to propose new lines of research in the juridical-institutional history of the Viceroyalty Novohispanic in the sixteenth century. The city becomes the backbone of the territory and the Government, in it, the mixture of the medieval Castilian with the pre-Hispanic is a constant, clearly perceptible in the rituals and religious pageants. Thus, the study of the establishment of certain religious patronages of the city (San Hipólito, the Virgen de los Remedios, and the Guadalupe cult) allow us to explore the economic and devotional activities in the urban area, at the same time that it facilitates the understanding of social cohesion behaviour between the citizen elite that constituted the Cabildo and embodied the city, for the defense of its preeminence and honor against the viceroyal authorities.

Keywords

• religious pageant
• ceremonial
• Cabildo
• spanish-american legislation
• municipal ordinances