Manuel Perez-Garcia, "Blood, Land and Power: The Rise and Fall of the Spanish Nobility and Lineages in the Early Modern Period "
English | ISBN: 1786837102 | 2021 | 352 pages | EPUB | 4 MB
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 honor were the main elements in these disputes. Honor, service to the crown, participation in the conquest and "pure" blood were the main features of Spanish nobility.