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Bishop Martínez Compañón's Practical Utopia in Enlightenment Peru*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 December 2015

Emily Berquist
Emily Berquist*
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California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, California
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“Bishops, because they are bishops, cannot stop being vassals of their kings, and functionaries of their states. Nor are they exempt from practicing with all those around them, especially with their diocesans, works of mercy, physically as well as spiritually.

I gave [the miners] as proof of this truth one of the soliloquies of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius, in which he said: “You are a man, you are a citizen of the world.” —Bishop Martínez Compañón recounting his experiences with the Hualgayoc miner's guild in a letter to Viceroy Teodoro de Croix of Peru, May 1786.

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The Americas , Volume 64 , Issue 3 , January 2008, pp. 377 - 408
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Copyright © Academy of American Franciscan History 2008

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Footnotes

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The author would like to thank the readers for The Americas, as well as Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra, Susan Deans-Smith, Rhys Isaac, Susan Ramírez and Ann Twinam for insightful commentary. I am also grateful to Inmaculada Candil García and the Servicio de Gestión Administrativa in the office of Patrimonio Nacional in the Palacio Real de España for granting me permission to reprint the watercolor images from Martínez Compañón's nine volumes of Trujillo del Perú. Earlier versions of this paper were presented at the August 2006 International Seminar on the History of the Atlantic World at Harvard University, and at the October 2006 Atlantic History Seminar at the University of Texas.