Between Justice and Reason of State: Vacant See, Patronage, and Frontier: The Royal Court in Charcas and the government of the district during the Interregnum of 1606-1607
The present article explores the political dynamic in the district of the royal court of justice of Charcas or Real Audiencia de Charcas during the period in which Perú did not have a viceroy between 1606 and 1607, re-assessing and expanding on Bridikhina’s (2015) suggestion that the tribunal benefi...
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Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Buenos Aires
2025
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| Sumario: | The present article explores the political dynamic in the district of the royal court of justice of Charcas or Real Audiencia de Charcas during the period in which Perú did not have a viceroy between 1606 and 1607, re-assessing and expanding on Bridikhina’s (2015) suggestion that the tribunal benefitted from such periods. During these twenty-two months and amidst legal discussions with the royal court of justice in Lima and the Consejo de Indias, the Audiencia in Charcas took over the government of its district, monopolising the distribution of rewards, accelerating the transformation of the east of Charcas into a territory of the Catholic Monarchy through an expedition to support a group of Chiriguanaes. Some contemporaries deemed the period as of “bad government”. However, the exceptional circumstances enabled Audiencia members totake on additional duties, based on a rhetoric of “reason of state”, prioritising a government run with support from their political clients, aligned with the local elite, as a more pragmatical manner to run the district. Without an “alter-ego” of Phillip III in Peru, the Audiencia in Charcas thought of itself as the best suitedinstitution to make the monarch present in its jurisdiction. |
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