Christoph Rosenmüller
Biographic Data
| ID | 570946 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christoph Rosenmüller |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christoph |
| FAMILY NAME | Rosenmüller |
| SIGNATURE | ROSENMÜLLER C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Middle Tennessee State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7686-0141 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 19 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Do Inato Ao Performativo
One powerful idea of the Ancién Régime suggested that meritorious judges could prevent judicial abuse, while innate deficiencies linked to low social origins or questionable occupations caused corruption. This concept of merit included schooling and compliance with royal law, but this was only one fledgling aspect among others. Merit also strongly referred to the noble and pure Christian lineage of judges and their forebears, who had served commu…
México, Imperio y Estado. Consideraciones sobre tres conceptos significantes del virreinato
Varios historiadores califican como anacrónico o teleológico utilizar “México” en el sentido del territorio y “mexicano/a” para su gente, “estado” al referirse al gobierno sobre personas y territorios e “imperio” como término para un vasto conglomerado de territorios al analizar la época del virreinato. Argumento aquí, no obstante, que los conceptos aparecían cada vez más con estos sentidos en las fuentes jurídicas, la correspondencia oficial y l…
Adrian Masters. We, the King
Empire of Poverty
El declive de los séquitos de los virreyes mexicanos del siglo XVIII
En este artículo, argumento que el volumen de los séquitos de los virreyes que llegaron a la Nueva España disminuyó durante el siglo XVIII, pero con marcadas excepciones. Mientras que los aristócratas de principios de siglo llevaban comitivas considerables, con el marqués de Casafuerte (1722-1734) se nota una tendencia hacia séquitos modestos, compuestos de una veintena de criados (es decir, asistentes o clientes). La llegada de Juan Francisco de…
Geduldete Fremde
Martin Biersack's study, whose title translates to “Tolerated strangers: Spanish colonial rule and the extranjeros in the Americas,” is a pathbreaking analysis of how migrants became, remained, and ceased to be vecinos (recognized residents with rights and duties) in Bourbon Spanish America from 1700 to 1810. Biersack shows that integrating into society did not result merely from a crown fiat or community practice. Instead, the author praxeologic…
Les intendants de la vice-royauté de la Nouvelle-Espagne (1764-1821)
Few scholars in the United States currently study intendants. Marie-Pierre Lacoste's analysis of the intendants is therefore timely. Her contribution is part of a renaissance of studies on the mid- and upper-level ministers, even in English-speaking historiography. For example, María Bárbara Zepeda Cortés is reinterpreting José de Gálvez, Francisco Eissa-Barroso shows the early militarization of important coastal governments, and for Miguel Costa…
«Tan peligrosas y feas conspiraciones»
Taller historiador
Corruption and Justice in Colonial Mexico, 1650–1755
Corruption is one of the most prominent issues in Latin American news cycles, with charges deciding the recent elections in Mexico, Brazil, and Guatemala. Despite the urgency of the matter, few recent historical studies on the topic exist, especially on Mexico. For this reason, Christoph Rosenmüller explores the enigma of historical corruption. By drawing upon thorough archival research and a multi-lingual collection of printed primary sources an…
Corruption and Justice in Colonial Mexico, 1650-1755
Los bastos dominios de este Reyno”
El primer conde de Revillagigedo, Juan Francisco de Güemes y Horcasitas, propuso una reorganización de Nueva España, territorio del que era virrey (1746-1755), de gran alcance. En su memorando del 4 de junio de 1752, que hasta ahora fue desconocido, Revillagigedo abogó para establecer gobernadores militares en Puebla de los Ángeles, Valladolid (Morelia) y Antequera de Oaxaca. El gobernador de Puebla debería recibir un salario anual de 4 000 pesos…
The Empirical Empire
Arndt Brendecke is a professor of early modern history at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München in Germany. He received his training in the history of the Holy Roman Empire but then shifted focus with his habilitation (second doctorate) to the Spanish empire. This work, which originally appeared in German in 2009, offers an insightful historical sociology of knowledge. According to Brendecke, the Spanish kings strove to gather the full infor…
Mexico in Spain’s Oceanic Empire, 1519–1821
On August 13, 1521, the Spanish conquistadors and their native allies seized Tenochtitlan, the capital of the Aztec empire. The Spaniards succeeded because they had forged alliances with the Tlaxcalans and other indigenous self-governing communities (altepetl) to fight the Aztecs. After the conquest these communities continued their traditions, and the Spaniards largely replaced Aztec leadership with their own. In addition, the friars and the sec…
Corrupted by Ambition
Renewed interest in the linkage between finance and the state has led historians to reexamine corruption. While there is scholarly consensus that the royal sale of appointments (beneficio) corrupted governance and weakened royal authority in a stagnant Spanish empire, the historical record suggests otherwise. Beneficio allowed social newcomers to buy their way into the judiciary. Traditional elites thought that these newcomers were innately corru…
Power and Corruption in the Early Modern Portuguese World
In March 2015, almost a million demonstrators protested in various Brazilian cities against corruption, while across Latin America scandals over the abuse of power make the headlines every day. Erik Lars Myrup explores these two themes, power and corruption, at an auspicious time when interest among global historians in these topics is on the rise again. Myrup starts his story roughly with the Portuguese restoration and the end of Spanish Hapsbur…
“The Indians… Long for Change”
This chapter attempts to strengthen the Atlantic perspective, thus tying together the court in Madrid, the central authorities in New Spain, the religious establishment, and the people the street. The friars played a role in the two indigenous protests against secularizations during the 1749-55 period. In San Bartolome Capulhuac a number of Indians joined the Augustinians in protesting the expulsion. The Augustinians were the sole order to lose a…
Los actores locales de la nación en la América Latina
This noteworthy volume gathers papers given at workshops held at the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla and the Colegio de Tlaxcala. Moving away from structuralist analyses, scholars have recovered an actor-centric view now honing in on all social and ethnic groups. Editor Evelyne Sanchez emphasizes in her careful introduction that methods such as microhistory have shed light on “actors who negotiate and do not submit absolutely to a norma…
The Power of Transatlantic Ties
This article analyzes the power of select political actors in the social networks of New Spain (colonial Mexico), from 1700–1755. Examining the participation of these actors in successful political and economic coalitions allows for assessment of the additional (or marginal) contribution of each politician. His or her chance of altering decisions of a coalition is called the power index, delivering a quantification of the idea of power. A second …
Friends, followers, countrymen
Aunque el virrey Juan Francisco de Güemes y Horcasitas, primer conde de Revillagigedo, fue uno de los altos funcionarios seleccionados por el nuevo régimen borbónico de entre la nobleza baja (hidalguía) para llevar a cabo reformas que buscaban reordenar y moralizar la administración colonial, muchas de las cuales efectivamente llevó a la práctica, mantuvo sin embargo la secular costumbre de apoyar o colocar a muchos de sus parientes, amigos, pais…
Corrupted by Ambition
Renewed interest in the linkage between finance and the state has led historians to reexamine corruption. While there is scholarly consensus that the royal sale of appointments (beneficio) corrupted governance and weakened royal authority in a stagnant Spanish empire, the historical record suggests otherwise. Beneficio allowed social newcomers to buy their way into the judiciary. Traditional elites thought that these newcomers were innately corru…
Friends, followers, countrymen
Aunque el virrey Juan Francisco de Güemes y Horcasitas, primer conde de Revillagigedo, fue uno de los altos funcionarios seleccionados por el nuevo régimen borbónico de entre la nobleza baja (hidalguía) para llevar a cabo reformas que buscaban reordenar y moralizar la administración colonial, muchas de las cuales efectivamente llevó a la práctica, mantuvo sin embargo la secular costumbre de apoyar o colocar a muchos de sus parientes, amigos, pais…
The Power of Transatlantic Ties
This article analyzes the power of select political actors in the social networks of New Spain (colonial Mexico), from 1700–1755. Examining the participation of these actors in successful political and economic coalitions allows for assessment of the additional (or marginal) contribution of each politician. His or her chance of altering decisions of a coalition is called the power index, delivering a quantification of the idea of power. A second …
“The Indians… Long for Change”
This chapter attempts to strengthen the Atlantic perspective, thus tying together the court in Madrid, the central authorities in New Spain, the religious establishment, and the people the street. The friars played a role in the two indigenous protests against secularizations during the 1749-55 period. In San Bartolome Capulhuac a number of Indians joined the Augustinians in protesting the expulsion. The Augustinians were the sole order to lose a…
Los actores locales de la nación en la América Latina
This noteworthy volume gathers papers given at workshops held at the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla and the Colegio de Tlaxcala. Moving away from structuralist analyses, scholars have recovered an actor-centric view now honing in on all social and ethnic groups. Editor Evelyne Sanchez emphasizes in her careful introduction that methods such as microhistory have shed light on “actors who negotiate and do not submit absolutely to a norma…
Mexico in Spain’s Oceanic Empire, 1519–1821
On August 13, 1521, the Spanish conquistadors and their native allies seized Tenochtitlan, the capital of the Aztec empire. The Spaniards succeeded because they had forged alliances with the Tlaxcalans and other indigenous self-governing communities (altepetl) to fight the Aztecs. After the conquest these communities continued their traditions, and the Spaniards largely replaced Aztec leadership with their own. In addition, the friars and the sec…
Corrupted by Ambition
Renewed interest in the linkage between finance and the state has led historians to reexamine corruption. While there is scholarly consensus that the royal sale of appointments (beneficio) corrupted governance and weakened royal authority in a stagnant Spanish empire, the historical record suggests otherwise. Beneficio allowed social newcomers to buy their way into the judiciary. Traditional elites thought that these newcomers were innately corru…
Power and Corruption in the Early Modern Portuguese World
In March 2015, almost a million demonstrators protested in various Brazilian cities against corruption, while across Latin America scandals over the abuse of power make the headlines every day. Erik Lars Myrup explores these two themes, power and corruption, at an auspicious time when interest among global historians in these topics is on the rise again. Myrup starts his story roughly with the Portuguese restoration and the end of Spanish Hapsbur…
The Empirical Empire
Arndt Brendecke is a professor of early modern history at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München in Germany. He received his training in the history of the Holy Roman Empire but then shifted focus with his habilitation (second doctorate) to the Spanish empire. This work, which originally appeared in German in 2009, offers an insightful historical sociology of knowledge. According to Brendecke, the Spanish kings strove to gather the full infor…
Corruption and Justice in Colonial Mexico, 1650–1755
Corruption is one of the most prominent issues in Latin American news cycles, with charges deciding the recent elections in Mexico, Brazil, and Guatemala. Despite the urgency of the matter, few recent historical studies on the topic exist, especially on Mexico. For this reason, Christoph Rosenmüller explores the enigma of historical corruption. By drawing upon thorough archival research and a multi-lingual collection of printed primary sources an…
Corruption and Justice in Colonial Mexico, 1650-1755
Los bastos dominios de este Reyno”
El primer conde de Revillagigedo, Juan Francisco de Güemes y Horcasitas, propuso una reorganización de Nueva España, territorio del que era virrey (1746-1755), de gran alcance. En su memorando del 4 de junio de 1752, que hasta ahora fue desconocido, Revillagigedo abogó para establecer gobernadores militares en Puebla de los Ángeles, Valladolid (Morelia) y Antequera de Oaxaca. El gobernador de Puebla debería recibir un salario anual de 4 000 pesos…
«Tan peligrosas y feas conspiraciones»
Taller historiador
Les intendants de la vice-royauté de la Nouvelle-Espagne (1764-1821)
Few scholars in the United States currently study intendants. Marie-Pierre Lacoste's analysis of the intendants is therefore timely. Her contribution is part of a renaissance of studies on the mid- and upper-level ministers, even in English-speaking historiography. For example, María Bárbara Zepeda Cortés is reinterpreting José de Gálvez, Francisco Eissa-Barroso shows the early militarization of important coastal governments, and for Miguel Costa…
El declive de los séquitos de los virreyes mexicanos del siglo XVIII
En este artículo, argumento que el volumen de los séquitos de los virreyes que llegaron a la Nueva España disminuyó durante el siglo XVIII, pero con marcadas excepciones. Mientras que los aristócratas de principios de siglo llevaban comitivas considerables, con el marqués de Casafuerte (1722-1734) se nota una tendencia hacia séquitos modestos, compuestos de una veintena de criados (es decir, asistentes o clientes). La llegada de Juan Francisco de…
Geduldete Fremde
Martin Biersack's study, whose title translates to “Tolerated strangers: Spanish colonial rule and the extranjeros in the Americas,” is a pathbreaking analysis of how migrants became, remained, and ceased to be vecinos (recognized residents with rights and duties) in Bourbon Spanish America from 1700 to 1810. Biersack shows that integrating into society did not result merely from a crown fiat or community practice. Instead, the author praxeologic…
Do Inato Ao Performativo
One powerful idea of the Ancién Régime suggested that meritorious judges could prevent judicial abuse, while innate deficiencies linked to low social origins or questionable occupations caused corruption. This concept of merit included schooling and compliance with royal law, but this was only one fledgling aspect among others. Merit also strongly referred to the noble and pure Christian lineage of judges and their forebears, who had served commu…
México, Imperio y Estado. Consideraciones sobre tres conceptos significantes del virreinato
Varios historiadores califican como anacrónico o teleológico utilizar “México” en el sentido del territorio y “mexicano/a” para su gente, “estado” al referirse al gobierno sobre personas y territorios e “imperio” como término para un vasto conglomerado de territorios al analizar la época del virreinato. Argumento aquí, no obstante, que los conceptos aparecían cada vez más con estos sentidos en las fuentes jurídicas, la correspondencia oficial y l…
Adrian Masters. We, the King
Empire of Poverty
Art (11 works) · Historical Studies in Latin America (11 works) · Political science (11 works) · Law (10 works) · History (8 works) · Historical Studies on Spain (7 works) · Latin American history and culture (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Humanities (6 works) · Sociology (6 works)