Family pressures and religious vocation in Lima according to the files of nullity of profession (1650-1700)

Abstract

In colonial Lima, as in other parts of the empire, the friars often had recourse to the often resorted to the possibility offered by canon law of requesting the canon law to request the annulment of their vows and separation from their separation from their respective convents. It was not until the second half of the 17th century that the In the second half of the 17th century alone, the Archbishop's Archives of the Peruvian Peruvian capital alone preserves hundreds of such files. of this type. Insofar as the petitioners most often claimed that their entry into the orders the petitioners often claimed that their entry into the orders was due to various types of family family problems of various kinds, this collection of documents is a good observatory of parent/child relationships. observatory of the parent/child relationships of the time, even if the nature of the the nature of these allegations suggests a critical reading of them. critical reading of them.