The Concierto (Contract): On the Building Contracts for the Main Cloister of the Monastery of the Conception of Lima (1627)
In Golden Age Spain, a concierto was a notarized agreement—essentially what we would now call a contract—stipulating obligations and payment terms for a specific undertaking. In the Spanish-speaking world today, the term concierto, in the legal sense, has fallen out of use, replaced by contrato (co...
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ABE Journal
2026
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| Sažetak: | In Golden Age Spain, a concierto was a notarized agreement—essentially what we would now call a contract—stipulating obligations and payment terms for a specific undertaking. In the Spanish-speaking world today, the term concierto, in the legal sense, has fallen out of use, replaced by contrato (contract). Nevertheless, Covarrubias’s dictionary (1611) defined the verb concertar as “composing/agreeing.” Thus, hacer un concierto (to make a contract) was a common practice in the American territ... |
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