The Pacto de Sangre in the Late Nineteenth-Century Nationalist Emplotment of Philippine History

• Main Author: Aguilar, Filomeno V, Jr
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2010
• Subjects: historiography; blood oath; blood brotherhood; nationalism; myth making; Other Sociology; Politics and Social Change
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/history-faculty-pubs/30; https://archium.ateneo.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1029&context=history-faculty-pubs
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

The Pacto de Sangre (Blood Compact), despite its crucial significance in Filipino conceptions of history, is seldom interrogated in Philippine historiography. The event that happened in Bohol in 1565, involving Sikatuna and Legazpi, was narrativized in the late nineteenth century and became integral...