Campesinos pobres y absolutismo reformista

Christian Windler-Dirisio
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Christian Windler-Dirisio: Universidad de Basilea

Historia Agraria. Revista de Agricultura e Historia Rural, 1994, issue 7, 67-107

Abstract: This paper is about the conflicts in two agro-towns of Lower Andalucia (Osuna and Morón de la Frontera) caused by the distribution of communal lands to poor peasants, landless farmers and labourers, which was ordered by the Council of Castile from 1767. The municipalities are described as dynamic and still largely autonomous political units, which are however bound up in complex networks of institutional and personal relationships within the structures of seigneurial jurisdictions and the State. The paper investigates the possibilities which poor peasants had of legally enforcing the ordinances of the Council of Castile against the resistance of the local governments. The peasants tried to use the patronage of the urban elites, the seigneurial administration of the Duke of Osuna or the clergy. They in turn used the peasants' protest movements as an instrument in their own struggle against the local governments.

Keywords: local government; communal lands; patronage; peasants and the State (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1994
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