Attempts of regulation of marriage in Cordoba in the Early Modern Age: synodal dispositions and pastoral letters

Abstract

This paper introduces a study on marital behavior and family in Modern Age Cordoba. The object of the study has been the canonical provisions emanating from the diocesan synods as well as pastoral letters on the sacrament of marriage praxis and the sins committed in the area of privacy; the judicial and executive tools used by bishops to try to regularize the transgressions back to the established ecclesiastical norms. The succession of provisions and writings allow us to evaluate, from a diachronic perspective, the persistence or change of certain traditions and customs that were part of everyday life and, therefore, the way of thinking at that time.