Archive sources for the study of local indian canonic law

Abstract

The Indian canonical right appears as a new cutting of the field of the knowledge, in which it is aspired to reflect on its fundamental concepts, sources and methods. The archives and documentary collections keep primary sources that can help to consolidate this perspective. The rules of brotherhoods, the consuetas of the cathedrals and the ecclesiastical duties, in the Institutional level; the ordos and rituals that determined the ways and the manners of making the ceremonies fixed or extraordinary; the visits (ad limina, pastoral or of brotherhoods), the different dictated proceedings to maintain the order in the diocese, and the local decrees of indulgences, are some of the documentary types that allow to know spaces and behaviors, places where the rule is interweaved with the socio-religious of the faithfuls in Indians.