Propios, arbitrios y comunales: la Hacienda municipal en el Reino de Aragón durante los siglos XVI y XVII*

José Antonio Mateos Royo

Revista de Historia Económica / Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History, 2003, vol. 21, issue 1, 51-77

Abstract: This paper studies the composition and administration of municipal finances in the Kingdom of Aragon during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Economic prosperity during the sixteenth century allowed town councils to carry out significant projects in order to transform the terms between man and landscape, to expand economic activities or to increase the public power. As a result of this administration, raising indebtedness during the seventeenth century caused the bankruptcy of town councils. Their financial difficulties were sharpened by the fiscal demands from the monarchy during the second quarter of this century and imposed to municipal authorities the increase of incomes. Final bankruptcy of town councils in Aragon will transfer the control of propios and communal lands to Juntas composed by creditors and an important representation of clergymen.

Date: 2003
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