Abstract

BUNSEN, José Cárdenas. Eclessiastical Law, the Indigenous Council of the Hospital of Cuzco, and links between Murúa and Guaman Poma. Letras [online]. 2020, vol.91, n.133, pp.163-186. ISSN 0378-4878.  http://dx.doi.org/10.30920/letras.91.133.7.

This essay examines the use of ecclesiastical council records in the works of Martin de Murua and Guaman Poma de Ayala. It argues that Murua used the Council decrees to support his authority as chronicler and to present his work as an extension of the Council’s. This would have allowed him to offer advice about Indian matters to civil and ecclesiastical authorities. In a similar direction, Guaman Poma used the decrees of the Lima Council meetings in several chapters of his chronicle to sustain his main proposals for ecclesiastical reform. The main difference between his use of these documents and that of Murua’s is that Guaman Poma used them to demolish the friar’s image, show the inefficacy of his potential advice to Church officials, unauthorize his books and suggest the punishments Murua deserved because he desobeyed and manipulated ecclesiastical jurisdiction.

Keywords : Martín de Murúa; Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala; Lima Synods; Council decree; Cabildo (council); Church reform; (Self)representation; Informants.

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