Blood, Land and Power

The Rise and Fall of the Spanish Nobility and Lineages in the Early Modern Period

Manuel Perez-garcia (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

352 Seiten

2021
University of Wales Press (Verlag)
978-1-78683-710-3 (ISBN)

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This long-duree study contributes to a deep knowledge of the formation of ruling elites, nobility, political class and rich families in southern Europe (Spain) during the transition from the Ancien Regime to the nineteenth century's new liberal regimes.

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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 long-duree chronology within the Braudelian methodology of this research aims to show how strategies and family networks changed over time, demonstrating a micro-history study of daily life.

Manuel Perez-Garcia is Associate Professor at the Department of History, School of Humanities, at Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China, and is founder and director of the Global History Network in China (GHN).

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
LIST OF FIGURES, GRAPHS AND TABLES
FOREWORD
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER 1. LINEAGE GLORY AND HONOUR IN LATE MIDDLE AGES: CONQUEST AND CONSOLIDATION OF ECONOMIC POWER
CHAPTER 2. HONOUR AND PURITY OF BLOOD
CHAPTER 3. BUILDING A SOCIAL NETWORK THROUGH POLITICAL, SOCIAL, AND INSTITUTIONAL TIES
CHAPTER 4. FAMILY AND ENTAILED STATE (MAYORAZGO): FIRSTBORNS AS KEEPERS OF THE FAMILY'S ECONOMIC POWER
CONCLUSIONS
BIBLIOGRAPHY

Erscheinungsdatum	10.05.2021
Reihe/Serie	Iberian and Latin American Studies
Zusatzinfo	No
Verlagsort	Wales
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie
ISBN-10	1-78683-710-2 / 1786837102
ISBN-13	978-1-78683-710-3 / 9781786837103
Zustand	Neuware