¿Fieles devotos o sodomitas “lacrientos”?: los mulatos de la cofradía de San Roque. Un sermón “inconveniente” ante el Santo Oficio novohispano, 1659

A preach pronounced during the celebration of San Roque festivity in the middle of the seventeenth century in Mexico City , causes various reactions that range from fury to laughter, as much in the attendants to the mass as between the viceroyal authorities. The intention of the present paper is to...

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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:e44f018b61b3461282e43d65c1fbee6e2021-12-02T10:32:44Z¿Fieles devotos o sodomitas “lacrientos”?: los mulatos de la cofradía de San Roque. Un sermón “inconveniente” ante el Santo Oficio novohispano, 16591626-025210.4000/nuevomundo.64661https://doaj.org/article/e44f018b61b3461282e43d65c1fbee6e2012-12-01T00:00:00Zhttp://journals.openedition.org/nuevomundo/64661https://doaj.org/toc/1626-0252A preach pronounced during the celebration of San Roque festivity in the middle of the seventeenth century in Mexico City , causes various reactions that range from fury to laughter, as much in the attendants to the mass as between the viceroyal authorities. The intention of the present paper is to rescue two frankly opposed images of the black and mulattoes that were part of this brotherhood. On the one hand their devotion, commitment and care of the hospital and cofrades, that makes the preacher call them “gentlemen”. But on the other hand, few months had passed from the scandalous process that civil justice had thundered against dozens of accused men to commit the nefarious sin, same who apparently were familiar or friends of the cofrades. Then, an opposite image is given off there completely; the one of vicious sodomites and even proud and defiant. Indeed the perception of the people, priests and judges around the african descendants in this study of case, is far from being homogenous.Ursula Camba LudlowCentre de Recherches sur les Mondes AméricainsarticleSodomymulattoesprideperceptionsHoly OfficeAnthropologyGN1-890Latin America. Spanish AmericaF1201-3799ENFRPTNuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos (2012)
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topic Sodomy
mulattoes
pride
perceptions
Holy Office
Anthropology
GN1-890
Latin America. Spanish America
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mulattoes
pride
perceptions
Holy Office
Anthropology
GN1-890
Latin America. Spanish America
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Ursula Camba Ludlow
¿Fieles devotos o sodomitas “lacrientos”?: los mulatos de la cofradía de San Roque. Un sermón “inconveniente” ante el Santo Oficio novohispano, 1659
description A preach pronounced during the celebration of San Roque festivity in the middle of the seventeenth century in Mexico City , causes various reactions that range from fury to laughter, as much in the attendants to the mass as between the viceroyal authorities. The intention of the present paper is to rescue two frankly opposed images of the black and mulattoes that were part of this brotherhood. On the one hand their devotion, commitment and care of the hospital and cofrades, that makes the preacher call them “gentlemen”. But on the other hand, few months had passed from the scandalous process that civil justice had thundered against dozens of accused men to commit the nefarious sin, same who apparently were familiar or friends of the cofrades. Then, an opposite image is given off there completely; the one of vicious sodomites and even proud and defiant. Indeed the perception of the people, priests and judges around the african descendants in this study of case, is far from being homogenous.
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title ¿Fieles devotos o sodomitas “lacrientos”?: los mulatos de la cofradía de San Roque. Un sermón “inconveniente” ante el Santo Oficio novohispano, 1659
title_short ¿Fieles devotos o sodomitas “lacrientos”?: los mulatos de la cofradía de San Roque. Un sermón “inconveniente” ante el Santo Oficio novohispano, 1659
title_full ¿Fieles devotos o sodomitas “lacrientos”?: los mulatos de la cofradía de San Roque. Un sermón “inconveniente” ante el Santo Oficio novohispano, 1659
title_fullStr ¿Fieles devotos o sodomitas “lacrientos”?: los mulatos de la cofradía de San Roque. Un sermón “inconveniente” ante el Santo Oficio novohispano, 1659
title_full_unstemmed ¿Fieles devotos o sodomitas “lacrientos”?: los mulatos de la cofradía de San Roque. Un sermón “inconveniente” ante el Santo Oficio novohispano, 1659
title_sort ¿fieles devotos o sodomitas “lacrientos”?: los mulatos de la cofradía de san roque. un sermón “inconveniente” ante el santo oficio novohispano, 1659
publisher Centre de Recherches sur les Mondes Américains
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