Liberty in Absolutist Spain - The Habsburg Sale of Towns, 1516-1700. 1, 108th Series, 1990

Informationen zum Autor Helen Nader is professor of history and associate dean of research and graduate development at Indiana University. She is the author of The Mendoza Family in the Spanish Renaissance, 1350-1550 . Klappentext Throughout early modern Europe, one of the most extraordinary royal fund-raising schemes was the seizure and sale of church property to finance foreign wars. The monarchs of Habsburg Spain extended these seizures to municipal property and used the revenue to maintain their empire. They sold charters of autonomy to hundreds of villages, thus converting them into towns, and sold towns to private buyers, thus increasing the number of seigniorial lords. In Hapsburg Spain, therefore, absolutism did not mean centralization. Rather, the kings invoked their absolute power to decentralize authority and allow their subjects a surprising degree of autonomy.

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• Authors: Helen Nader, Nader Helen
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.09.1993
• EAN: 9780801847318
• ISBN: 978-0-8018-4731-8
• No. of pages: 328
• Series: Johns Hopkins University Studi; The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science; Johns Hopkins University Studi
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; European History, Spain, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Land Rights, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, Human rights, civil rights, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, c 1500 to c 1600, C 1600 To C 1700, HISTORY / Europe / Spain