Libro Primero de Cabildos de Lima

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Author: Torres Saldamando, Enrique (1846-1896) signed Year: 1888 Publisher: Republica Peruana Place: Lima Description: 3 parts: xxviii+445 pages with engraved color title, portrait and facsimile plates of original documents. 426 pages with engraved colored coats of arms, facsimile manuscript productions, family trees, maps and appendices. 220 pages with tables and engraved coat of arms plates. Folio ()13 3/4" x 9") bound in half leather with gilt lettering to spine and four raised spine bands over burgundy pebbled boards. With collaboration by Pablo Patro and Nicanor Bolona. Signed by the author on the dedication page of volume one and the page following the Pizzaro plate of volume two. First edition. The Castilian cabildo has some similarities to the ancient Roman municipium and civitas especially in the use of plural administrative officers and its control of the surrounding countryside, the territorium , but its evolution is a uniquely medieval development. With the collapse of the Western Roman Empire and the establishment of the Visigothic Kingdom, the ancient municipal government disappeared. In many areas, seeking to escape from the political instability around them, people entrusted themselves to large landholders, exchanging their service for the landholder's protection, in a process that ultimately led to feudalism. In areas where the old territoria survived, the Visigothic kings appointed a single officer, called either a comes or a iudice to replace the defunct mu

• Binding: Hardcover

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