Renzo Honores ist von Oktober 2026 bis März 2027 Fellow des Kollegs.
Vita
Renzo Honores is a researcher at the Instituto Internacional de Derecho y Sociedad (in Lima, Peru) since 2016. His field of study is the Andean legal history, especially the cases of Bolivia and Peru during the colonial times. He studied Law in Peru (Master in Civil Law and Juris Doctor by the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú) and History in the United States (Ph.D. by Florida International University). He has been Law and History professor in Peru and the United States between 2006 and 2026. Currently, he is working on a project about the legal pluralism in Potosí between 1545 and 1670.
Forschungsprojekt
The Laws of the Red Mountain: Legal Orders, Social Interactions, and Customary Laws in Colonial Potosí, 1550-1670
This research project explores how the Villa Imperial de Potosí (The Imperial Town of Potosí) became a vibrant space of legal production in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries Andes. Together with Mexico City, Potosí was one of the most populated cities in the New World. Its population was estimated between 100,000 a 120,000 inhabitants. This society was diverse and was composed of Andeans, Spaniards, Portuguese, and African descent community. This project examines the construction of juridica discourses in Potosí (of the elite and ordinary litigants), and how was created a legal narrative on the labor, mining resources, richness, and human dignity. This project has been divided into three parts. The first one studies the landscape of the Mountain (the Rich Hill), the city, and the laws. The second one explores the intense debates, discourses, and legal orders (in Public and Private Laws) of the Imperial Town. The third one is an examination of the local legal culture and its legacy in the history of Latin American law.
Einschlägige Veröffentlichungen
2026 Legal Polyphony in the Colonial Andes: Professionals, Litigants, and the Legal Culture in the City of Lima, 1538-1640. (Manuscript to be finished in December 2026).
2026 “Justicia, profesionales y litigación en la Lima colonial temprana, 1538-1556” (essay to be published in the volume Tribunales y cultura jurídica en la América Latina colonial edited by Carlos Garriga, Bilbao, Universidad del País Vasco, November 2024).
2026 Coauthored with Esteban Llamosas. Procurador. Research Paper Series. Frankfurt am Main: Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory.
2022 “La profesión legal en los Andes coloniales: Abogados y procuradores de causas en Lima y Potosí, 1538-1640”, In German Morong y Matthias Glöel (editors), Gobernar el virreinato del Perú, s. XVI-XVIII. Praxis político-jurisdiccional y uso del conocimiento empírico moderno, pp. 245-276. Madrid: Editorial Sindéresis.
2021 Coauthored with Liliana Pérez Miguel, “Cacicas, Land, and Litigation in Seventeenth-Century Chincha, Peru” In Margarita R. Ochoa and Sara Vicuña Guengerich (eds) Cacicas: The Indigenous Women Leaders of Spanish America, 1492-1825, pp. 189-214. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2021.
2020 “Presence and Use of Pragmatic Legal Literature in Habsburg Peru (16th-17th centuries)”, In Thomas Duve and Otto Danwerth (eds.) Knowledge of the Pragmatici: Legal and Moral Theological Literature and the Formation of Early Modern Ibero-America, pp. 131-150. Leiden: Brill, 2020.