Private Passions and Public Sins: Men and Women in Seventeenth-century Lima (Dialogos) (Dialogos Series)

by Maria Emma Mannarelli (Author), SidneyEvans (Translator), Meredith D . Dodge (Translator)

• New

  Paperback
  2007

  $38.63

  Premarital sex, consensual relations, bigamy, polygamy, births out of wedlock, and clandestine affairs between clergy and laity were common components of everyday society in colonial Latin America. This title focuses on the frequency and significance of illegitimacy and extramarital relationships in Lima, Peru, during the seventeenth century.