Bandos para el buen gobierno de la Ciudad de México virreinal (original) (raw)

2020

Abstract

During the colonial period in Mexico City, as in many other cities of the Spanish Empire, a series of laws were issued addressed to inhabitants and neighbors of this urban center. The legislation aimed to accomplish what was in that time named the city’s “good government” (“buen gobierno”). After compiling the local law’s corpus, stored in diverse archives, this study delves into this legislation’s characteristics, analyzing the corpus’s themes and examines the issues that most interested colonial authorities, local (virreinales) and metropolitan (reales), from the beginning of these provision’s issuing.

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