Justicia y piedad en la España moderna. Comportamientos religiosos de la Real Chancillería de Valladolid

Abstract

The ministers of the High Justice Court of Valladolid were absorbed in the sacred atmosphere of the ancien regime, sharing the same beliefs which were often very close to superstition, of the so-called evil «popular religiousness». However, as we show in this study which focuses on the 17th Century, the piety of the Chancellery was shown in various ways and had other connotations as well as the religious ones as such. Their own devotion, their participation in urban religious feasts and in the exequies of their members were also a suitable scene, in view of the role played by ceremonial and sacred eventes in that society, in order to strengthen its image and hence, that of the Monarchy.