Letters about adulteries’ pardon in the 16th century

Abstract

In the patriarcal society of the modern age, the adultery was considered crime if the wife was who incuried in it. According to the castilian practice, the husband that was offended by infidelity of his wife could avange his honour to turning to the courts or taking the law into one’s own hands, in which case he has to limit to certain requirements. For différents reasons some husbands opted for pardon. The scripts that we present are about the adulteries’s pardon and the possible motivationes that induced the husbands to give it.