Historiographical points of view the bishops. Approaches to a complex historical subject through Argentinian historiography in colonial and early independent times

Abstract

Church social history in Argentina has developed vigorously since the 1990s along with the expansion of the academic historiographical production in the country. This article proposes, in the first place, to examine these studies focusing on the history of ecclesiastical hierarchy and taking into account new questions, subjects and analytical changes in this field. In the second place, and as an example of these innovations, this paper aims to specify the distance held by  current historiography about the episcopal government in ancient colonized dioceses, like Córdoba del Tucumán, in relation to “border churches” in the Río de la Plata region between the last decades of the 18^th century and the first half of the 19^thcentury.