La condición del intelectual en México. Los juristas mexicanos en las audiencias de Nueva España entre 1600 y 1711

Abstract

For the first time, the issue is raised regarding the role of the Mexican jurists that achieved chair positions in the high courts of New Spain. Beyond the scope of Burkholder’s and Chandler’s quantitative studies, the initiatives of the Mexican jurists and their effects on the Council of the Indies are studied, as is the relationship between the jurists’ actions and their careers. The move toward the sale of chair positions, beginning in the first decade of the XVIII century, supposes a total change in the Mexican intellectuals’ social condition, now that his career depended less on family origins, years of study, or merits achieved in the Chamber of the Indies.