LA MANIOBRA DEL ORDEN ARTIFICIAL EN EL BUEN CELO PREMIADO DE GONZALO DE CéSPEDES Y MENESES

gonzalo de céspedes y meneses publishes el buen celo premiado in 1623, during the inquisitorial atmosphere of counter-reformation spain, six decades after the council of trent established rigid laws in order to control and punish those subjects who dare to challenge the authority of the church in matters such as the sacraments of marriage and confession, among others. trough legal rhetoric and fiction, this text unmasks the artificial order by means of which both history and the law constructs their narrations in order to embed transgressors into the fabric of society.