¿Que son las cosas de Dioa? no son nada: plots and conflicts in the inquisitorial process against the cacique of Texcoco (1539)

Author(s)

Saulo Goulart

• Document type: Master's Dissertation
• Press: Campinas, SP.
• Institution: Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas
• Defense date: 2012-07-02

Examining board members

Leandro Karnal; José Alves de Freitas Neto; Luiz Estevam de Oliveira Fernandes

• Advisor: Leandro Karnal

Abstract

It investigates how the case of don Carlos Ometochtzin, cacique of Texcoco (Proceso Inquisitorial del Cacique de Tetzcoco 1539), was related to the early years of Spanish conquest in the Valley of Mexico. The goal is to look at the clippings raised by the reading process, establishing a two-way dialogue, because this can help the intelligibility of the process and averts the eyes in ways that only a particular source can provide. As the same manner, this work understands the process as an event, since it wonders about the process according to its manufacturing rules inside the inquisitorial institution, evoking its institutional connections more directly. For this, it asks how to operated the first inquisitorial courts established in New Spain in the period preceding the year of 1571 - official date of establishment of the Court of the Inquisition in New Spain, more specifically in the period of appointment of first archbishop of Mexico and inquisitor bishop Juan de Zumárraga. It can shows also, through the inquisitorial process of the chief of Texcoco and other research sources, aspects of the behavior of ancient indigenous elite of the valley of Mexico against the imposition of Christianity and political domination of Spain (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 10/13490-8 - The Proceso Inquisitorial del Cacique de Tetzcoco (1539): Inquisition, spiritual conquest and indigenous resistence
• Grantee: Saulo Mendes Goulart
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master