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(PDF) The Power of Cities: The Iberian Peninsula from Late Antiquity to the Early Modern Period, Leiden/Boston 2019 (= The Medieval and Early Modern Iberian World; 70) | Sabine Panzram - Academia.edu. Download Free PDF.
- Sabine Panzram
Introduction to the Iberian Peninsula, General Features: Geography, Geology, Name, Brief History, Land Use and Conservation. September 2017. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-54784-8_1. In book: The ...
- Aristocratic Lineages, Local Oligarchies, and Conflict
- Isabella and Fernando: from Crisis to War and Expansion
- Portugal: The Bases For A Precocious and Enduring Political Stability
These were the words that anastute observer, don Pedro Pacheco, marquis of Villena and favourite of Henry IV of Castile (1424–1474), used to refer to a structural phenomenon in European societies of his time: the expansive logic of the aristocratic houses and estates. Several decades later, Nicolò Machiavelli devoted his Il Principe to the problem ...
Bargaining Power
These tensions became more evident from the middle of the century when Henry IV (1425–1474) applied an erratic policy in Castile. Known as ‘Henry of the Favours’ (Enrique de las Mercedes), on account of his efforts to win over the high nobility by conceding taxes and parts of the realm, he also attempted to deal with the claims by the Cortes, taking measures to balance out the situation by introducing the so-called tasa de señoríos.Footnote 27Yet these measures proved largely inadequate, and...
Foreign Wars for Domestic Peace
As important, if not more so, for political stability was the war against the Nazaríkingdom of Granada. The fact was perfectly understood at the time, to the extent that, as late as 1580, Jerónimo Zurita would write: With these words the chronicler and historian of the Crown of Aragon set down the expansive principle that Fernando del Pulgar had previously detected in many noble households. The difference was, of course, that Zurita was writing about the monarchy as a whole. What he possibly...
Between 1449, when the Crown managed to pacify the last concerted attempt at noble rebellion, and 1822, when Brazil was lost, Portugal lived the longest period of political stability enjoyed by any European country in the early modern period (Thomaz 1994, p. 131). This stability, largely due to the imperial regime, had some parallels in Castile. As...
- Bartolomé Yun-Casalilla
- Bartolome.Yun.Casalilla@EUI.eu
- 2019
Jun 7, 2021 · Bartolomé Yun-Casalilla needs scant introduction to the historian of the early modern Iberian world—his publications during a distinguished career have marked him out as one of the most prominent experts in this field for a number of years now.
Featuring innovative work from leading historians of the Iberian world, the book adopts a strong transnational and comparative approach, and offers the reader an interdisciplinary lens through which to view the interactions, entanglements, and conflicts between the many peoples that were part of it.
— Social change in the Iberian World — 563 The initial list of 41 cities designated for this effect was enlarged in 1746. This law allowed central authorities to know exactly where Gypsies were located. In July 1749, the Marquis of Ensenada (1702– 1781) put in practice what would become
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Sep 18, 2019 · The Iberian World: 1450–1820 brings together, for the first time in English, the latest research in Iberian studies, providing in-depth analysis of fifteenth- to early nineteenth-century Portugal and Spain, their European possessions, and the African, Asian, and American peoples that were under their rule.
