Contributors
- Contributors
Jorge Traslosheros is Professor at the Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas in the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). His research focuses on the judicial history of the Roman Catholic Church in colonial Mexico. He is author of several articles and two books on the topic. The most recent one, Historia judicial eclesiástica de la Nueva España: materia, método y razones, was published in 2014.
Pilar Latasa is Assistant Professor at the Universidad de Navarra. Her research has dealt with the vicerregal court of Lima. She is editor of Discursos coloniales: texto y poder en la América hispana (2011). Her recent studies in social history have focused on the formation of marriage in the viceroyalty of Peru, a part of the project Ecclesiastical Justice and the Formation of Society in Colonial Spanish America. Of several works she has published on the topic, the most recent are the book chapters “La promesa de una “farsanta”: teatro y matrimonio en Lima (siglo XVII)” in El teatro en la Hispanoamérica colonial (2008) and “Publicidad y libertad en el matrimonio: autoridad paterna y dispensa de amonestaciones en Lima, 1600–1650” in Padres e hijos ante el matrimonio: España y el Mundo Hispánico (siglos XVI-XVIII) (2008).
Gabriela Ramos is University Senior Lecturer in Latin American History at the University of Cambridge and fellow of Newnham College, Cambridge. She is the author of several works about the history of religion in the Andes, including Death and Conversion in the Andes: Lima and Cuzco, 1532–1670 (University of Notre Dame Press, 2010), and editor, with Yanna Yannakakis, of Indigenous Intellectuals: Knowledge, Power, and Colonial Culture in Mexico and the Andes (Duke University Press, 2014).
Ana de Zaballa Beascoechea is Assistant Professor at the University of the Basque Country. She is lead researcher of the project Ecclesiastical Justice and the Formation of Society in Colonial Spanish America, funded by the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (Spain). She is author and co-author of various books; the most recent are Los indios, El derecho canónico y la justicia eclesiástica en la América virreinal (2011) and Gobierno y reforma del Obispado de Oaxaca (2014). Currently, she focuses her research efforts on the study of the ecclesiastical tribunals in New Spain and their interconnections with society, especially through the study of indigenous marriage.
