“Mirando las cosas de cerca”

Indigenous Marriage in the Philippines in the Light of Law and Legal Opinions (17th–18th Centuries)

Bibliographic Data

ID20041890
AuthorsMarya Svetlana T Camacho (0000-0002-0558-6229, corresponding author), Marya Camacho
Year2021
Pages264-293
Publication date2021-02-19
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeCHAPTER
VenueThe School of Salamanca (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherBrill | Nijhoff (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1163/9789004449749_009
OpenAlexW3134158214
ISBN9789004449749
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited3

This essay examines selected writings of two Dominican moral theologians, Juan de Paz and Francisco Martinez, on questions related to indigenous marriage in the Spanish colonial Philippines. The work of Paz is set into the context of his activities as professor and rector of the University of Santo Tomas in Manila, an institution which prided itself on being a purveyor of Hispanic academic tradition. It was often consulted corporately or through its individual professors on a great variety of cases and questions with a moral-legal dimension faced by public and private institutions and authorities. This article also examines Martinez's treatises on the indigenous customs of bride wealth and wedding services against the background of the insistent injunctions against them from both secular and ecclesiastical authorities. In their interpretation and assessment of indigenous marriage and its attendant customs, these two moral theologians/Paz and Martinez proved themselves to be heirs of the discursive content and method of the School of Salamanca. They applied their command not only of moral theology but also of civil and canon law to a non-European socio-cultural context, thereby demonstrating where points of harmony as well as of dissonance with indigenous custom lay

Art · Colonialism · Humanities · Indigenous · Political science · Sociology · History · Law · Philippine History and Culture

Tools

Open DOILibgenOpen Access