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Legal Pluralism in the Thought and Works of Vasco de Quiroga

Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, Mexico

Several aspects of the personality, thought and work of Don Vasco de Quiroga are known today, but a deeper awareness of his legal thinking would enable us to understand better the motives for his actions in New Spain and the Michoacán region. In order to do this we need to place him in the conceptual, institutional and legal context in which he was educated and where he developed throughout his life. Well versed in the different legal systems in use at the time, he absorbed Roman laws, which he respected as the work of esteemed scholars, while at the same time basing his evangelical mission in Mexico on the canons of the Church. And the legal system that was to govern the villages he created according to a new model would be based on custom coming from the grassroots.

Diogenes, Vol. 53, No. 1, 68-78 (2006)
DOI: 10.1177/0392192106062445


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