By Stafford Poole
ISBN-10: 0806135921
ISBN-13: 9780806135922
Philip II is an interesting and enigmatic determine in Spanish historical past, however it used to be his letrados--professional bureaucrats and ministers expert in law--who made his giant castilian empire attainable. In Juan de Ovando, Stafford Poole strains the existence and occupation of a key minister within the king’s govt to discover the position that letrados performed in Spanish society as they sought to displace the better the Aristocracy within the management via a procedure dependent upon merit.Juan de Ovando used to be an industrious, discerning, and dependable servant, but, like several letrados, he owed his place to royal desire. Ovando started his occupation as an ecclesiastical pass judgement on and inquisitor in Seville. From there, on the king’s order, he undertook the reform of the college of Alcal? de Henares, considered one of his such a lot enduring achievements. Appointed then to the splendid council of the Spanish Inquisition, Ovando used to be commissioned to enquire the Council of the Indies, over which he ultimately presided. during this function, Ovando begun codifying legislation and accumulating information regarding Spain’s out of the country possessions during the famed Relaciones geogr?ficas--wide-ranging surveys of everyday life within the New international. He devised long term and forward-looking colonial guidelines for brand new Spain whereas, additionally serving as president of the Council of Finance, he sought to convey order to Spain’s chaotic monetary situation.Poole’s biography of Juan de Ovando presents an intimate view of the daily impact letrados wielded over the Spanish colonial computer.
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The chapter seems to have viewed the whole process as a means of lessening its prestige and centralizing more power in the hands of the archbishop. Thus the canons were ready for the next challenge, which was not slow in coming: the appointment of a successor to Doctor Egidio. The choice was to fall on Doctor Constantino Ponce de la Fuente, commonly known as Doctor Constantino. THE CASE OF DOCTOR CONSTANTINO The story of Doctor Constantino, as it is commonly told, has until recently rested on two opposed accounts.
96 It should be borne in mind that Ovando was making a case for his own advancement and was perhaps following a party line mentality as far as the Constantino case was concerned. He was an honest man, but he was also dedicated to the governmental and bureaucratic structure of which he was a part. AT WAR WITH THE CHAPTER Ovando’s struggles with the chapter did not end with the Constantino affair. Like provisores before him, he was caught up in the conflicts between two competing authorities, the archbishop and the chapter.
In addition, as the official preacher of the cathedral chapter, his doctrine had to be in accord with that of the canons. In this regard, Constantino was acceptable to the chapter but not to Valdés. 38 JUAN DE OVANDO It was clear that the election required the participation of both the archbishop and the canons in major orders. What was not clear was whether the archbishop was just another elector, on a par with the canons, or whether he had veto power over their choice. What applied to the archbishop applied by delegation to his provisor.
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