Liberty in Absolutist Spain
The Habsburg Sale of Towns, 1516-1700
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3205382 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Carolyn P Boyd, Helen Nader |
| Year | 1992 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 739 |
| Publication date | 1992-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Interdisciplinary History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-1953 • E-ISSN: 1530-9169 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/205252 |
| OpenAlex | W2166910564 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
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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| Unique citing works | 9 |
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| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 1999 - 2024 (26) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |