Credit and Discredit of Financiers in Wartime: Defrauding and Serving the Crown in Seventeenth-Century Spain

Sébastien Malaprade
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Sébastien Malaprade: Centre de Recherches Historiques, TEPSIS

Chapter Chapter 2 in The War Within, 2018, pp 17-44 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract In seventeenth-century Spain, a period often considered as marking the climax of the Habsburg financial crisis, a number of pamphleteers blamed rising fiscal pressure on fraudulent behaviours among the king’s officers. Based on the papers of the visita (enquiry) against the financier Rodrigo Jurado opened in 1643, the chapter successively examines two questions: first, the mechanisms of asset accumulation by Castilian finance officers in wartime; second, the shifting boundaries between corruption and tolerated conducts through a critical analysis of the concept of credit used by both accused and accusers.

Keywords: Seventeenth-century Spain; Officers; Corruption; Credit; Wealth accumulation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-98050-8_2

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