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Education in Early Modern Spain: Whose Responsibility?

May 10, 2022

Posted by: Stephen Mayeaux

The following is a guest post by Katie DeFonzo, who served as a fall 2021 remote intern transcribing and researching documents in the Herencia: Centuries of Spanish Legal Documents crowdsourcing campaign at the Law Library of Congress.

Brief on behalf Teresa de Betrela Lapeira, the wife of Oronzio de Betrela Andrade, a Colonel of Infantry of the Royal Army, versus María de Lapeira, a widow, and others, as legal guardians of the ward, María de Martí Lapeira, concerning said María de Martí Lapeira's education. [January 12, 1723] — Brief on behalf Teresa de Betrela Lapeira, the wife of Oronzio de Betrela Andrade, a Colonel of Infantry of the Royal Army, versus María de Lapeira, a widow, and others, as legal guardians of the ward, María de Martí Lapeira, concerning said María de Martí Lapeira’s education [January 12, 1723].

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