Good Places and Non-Places in Colonial Mexico: The Figure of Vasco de Quiroga (1470D1565)

High state official and judge of the Supreme Court or the Segunda Audiencia, and later first bishop of the state of Michoacan, Vasco de Quiroga is still celebrated for the alternative community models he established for the Purepecha Indians in the Northwestern state of Michoacan in Mexico. This study offers the most complete approach to date to the writings directly attributed to this state official of the Spanish Empire and also to the scholarship about him. This work provides critical readings of Quiroga’s texts including the Rules and Regulations for the Government of the Hospitals of Santa Fe de Mexico and Michoacan, Informacion en Derecho, De Debellandis Indis and the Juicio de Residencia, and relates them to more widely know figures such as Gines de Sepulveda, Bartolome de las Casas, Bernal Diaz del Castillo and Francisco de Vitoria among others. This book will be of interest to all those engaged in the history of literature, legal studies, utopianism, Hispanic/Spanish studies of the Early Modern Period, Colonial Latin American Studies and Golden Age Studies.