Blood, Land and Power : The Rise and Fall of the Spanish Nobility and Lineages in the Early Modern Period

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Pérez-García, Manuel, 1979- [VerfasserIn]

Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Series: Iberian and Latin American StudiesPublisher: Cardiff : University of Wales Press, 2021Description: 1 Online-Ressource (352 p.)ISBN:

9781786837103

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Additional physical formats: 9781786837103. | Erscheint auch als: Blood, Land and Power. Druck-Ausgabe Cardiff : University of Wales Press,c2021DDC classification:

929.76 23

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CS947

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Summary: The analysis of land management, lineage and family through the case study of early modern Spanish nobility from sixteenth to early nineteenth century is a major issue in recent historiography. It aims to shed light on how upper social classes arranged strategies to maintain their political and economic status. Rivalry and disputes between old factions and families were attached to the control and exercise of power. Blood, land management and honour were the main elements in these disputes. Honour, service to the Crown, participation in the conquest and ‘pure’ blood (Catholic affiliation) were the main features of Spanish nobility. This book analyses the origins of the entailed-estate (mayorazgo) from medieval times to early modern period, as the main element that enables us to understand the socio-economic behaviour of these families over generations. This longue durée chronology within the Braudelian methodology of the research aims to show how strategies and family networks changed over time, demonstrating a micro-history study of daily lifePPN: PPN: 1778422683Package identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-94-OAB

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