RT Book, Whole
T1 Blood, Land and Power. The Rise and Fall of the Spanish Nobility and Lineages in the Early Modern Period
A1 Pérez García, Manuel
K1 Catholic Monarchy
K1 History of family
K1 Mayorazgo
K1 Entailed state
K1 Power
K1 Land management
K1 Purity of blood
K1 Castile
K1 Early Modern World
K1 Spanish Monarchy
K1 Pureza de sangre
K1 Global history
K1 Social network analysis
K1 Digital humanities
K1 Economic history
K1 Proyecto GECEM
AB 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 life.
PB University of Wales Press
SN 9781786837103
YR 2021
FD 2021-04-01
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10433/11800
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10433/11800
LA en
NO GECEM Project (ERC-Starting Grant), ref. 679371, under the European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme, www.gecem.eu.
NO GECEM Project (ERC-Starting Grant), ref. 679371, Horizon 2020, project hosted at UPO
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RD May 22, 2026