Standardisation was never a goal of the Peruvian liberal legislator

Guevara Gil, Armando4/24/20244/24/20242023https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14502/256In 1821, Peru gained independence from the Spanish colonial empire. Despite the new legal codes issued in the young republic, the country was still shaped by a historically evolved legal pluralism. The legal anthropologist and historian Armando Guevara Gil takes a micro-historical approach to modern Peruvian legal history. He examines the phenomenon of runaway nuns in the early 19th century – cases on the intersection between secular and church law. In the interview, he comments on the state of Peruvian legal-historical research and argues in favour of paying attention to the microcosm of the individuals’ perceptions and agency.application/pdfenginfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess"Each court applied a diﬀerent legal corpus"Standardisation was never a goal of the Peruvian liberal legislatorInterview with Armando Guevara Gil on the legal history of Peru and the potential of micro-historical analysesinfo:eu-repo/semantics/articlehttps://purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#5.05.01