La Cofradía Quiteña de San Eloy
ISSN: 0213-1390
Year of publication: 1988
Issue: 10
Pages: 197-214
Type: Article
More publications in: Estudios humanísticos. Geografía, historia y arte
Abstract
Spanishamerica inherited the old spanish gremial system and, as was usual, they stablished their own brotherhoods as ocured in the silver guilds and with the metal-workers, who founded the guild of San Eloy. The papers of this brotherhood were discovered in archives and date from l8th Century. The internal crisis in the guild that were recorded at that time allowed present discouverys.