The Jesuits and the Inquisition at the south of Perú in the times of Philip the 2nd. Between the speech of power and the domination of the territory

Abstract

This work intends to inquire about the functioning of the Inquisitorial Justice of the Limeño Tribunal, since it was established in 1569 until a few years after the turning into to the XVII century, in the regions of Tucumán, Rio de la Plata and Paraguay; as well as some aspects of the set-up established relationship between the Inquisition and the Jesuits in the region. To achieve this aim, we question the origins of these relations between the Society of Jesus and the Inquisition, institutions of very different aims and modes of action, even though both were strongly linked to the Spanish Monarchy. And more specifically, what was the nature of this link in the governorates of southern Peru, where the Society of Jesus had placed one of its main centres of evangelization. Who and through what legal instruments the Jesuits participated in the exercise of inquisitorial justice and, as was their performance in this sense; these are the main questions of this research.