La nobleza y el poder local aragonés en los siglos XVII y XVIII
- Bernabé Gil, David (coord.)
- Pla Alberola, Primitivo J. (coord.)
ISSN: 0212-5862, 1989-9823
Year of publication: 2008
Issue Title: Élites sociales y poder territorial
Issue: 26
Pages: 91-120
Type: Article
More publications in: Revista de Historia Moderna
Abstract
The next study seeks to highlight the continuing process of the municipality to reach oligarchy in modern times, particularly in the kingdom of Aragon. This process resulted in the creation of a local elite increasingly attached to a particular way of life and not a class situation. If in a first phase, the nobility tended to find their access to local power, encouraged by the monarchy, in a second phase, the process changed. It was not the nobility, in the legal sense, which took up power, but a more diverse group of people that we can begin to class as oligarchy. This group was composed of families who not only shared a similar lifestyle: agricultural properties, long tradition of local power, but also openness to the world of letters as a new requirement admired by the monarchy. On the hand, the titled nobility and higher ancestry lost interest by local power, even in such important places at the national level as Zaragoza.