Inversión económica y gestión patrimonial particular entre los prebendados de la España moderna: Córdoba (1500-1800)

It is tried through this paper to present a somewhat neglected aspect by both social history and economic history, the income analysis of local ecclesiastical elites, a significant financial element in the family, urban and regional environment. It starts from the case of the andalusian city of Cordoba as object of study in the context of Early Modern Spain

Cardinals in miniature: the image of power through the capitular clergy of Cordoba

The house and the chapel were suitable instruments for the transmission of an image of power and privilege to the rest of the castilian society in the Modern Age. The members of the capitular clergy played a key role in this sense within the strategies of promotion and emulation of their families, and that is what this article tries to show through the example of the Cathedral Chapter of Cordoba.La casa y la capilla fueron instrumentos idóneos para la transmisión de una imagen de poder y privilegio al resto de la sociedad castellana en época moderna. Los miembros del clero capitular jugaron un papel fundamental en este sentido dentro de las estrategias de ascenso y emulación de sus familias, y eso es lo que este artículo pretende mostrar a través del ejemplo del Cabildo de la Catedral de Córdoba

SOLEDAD GÓMEZ NAVARRO, Mirando al cielo sin dejar el suelo: Los jerónimos cordobeses de Valparaíso en el Antiguo Régimen. Estudio preliminar y edición crítica del libro “Protocolo” de la comunidad

Review of the book: SOLEDAD GÓMEZ NAVARRO, Mirando al cielo sin dejar el suelo: Los jerónimos cordobeses de Valparaíso en el Antiguo Régimen. Estudio preliminar y edición crítica del libro “Protocolo” de la comunidad, Visión Libros-Colegio Notarial de Andalucía-Instituto Escurialense de Investigaciones Históricas y Artísticas, Colección de Historia Religiosa, Madrid, 2014, 824 pp.FCT Ref. SFRH/BPD/85917/2012. CIDEHUS Ref. UID/HIS/00057/2013 (POCI-01-0145-FEDER-007702), FCT/Portugal, COMPETE, FEDER, Portugal2020. R&D Project HAR2015-68577

Dean don Juan de Córdoba's houses: luxury and client around a capitular of the Renaissance

A través de varias fuentes referentes a don Juan Fernández de Córdoba, deán y canónigo de la catedral de Córdoba, abad y señor de Rute, se pretende recrear un ejemplo de vida cotidiana de las élites y de la red de vínculos que conformaban la sociedad cordobesa del siglo XVI.Through different sources relating to don Juan Fernández de Córdoba, dean and canon of the cathedral of Cordova, abbot and lord of Rute, it tries to recreate an example of elite’s daily life and the mesh of links which formed the cordovan society of the 16th century

El precio del nepotismo. Coadjutoría y resigna en las catedrales andaluzas (ss. XVI-XVIII)

It is tried through this article to reveal the mechanism by which so many local elite families in Andalusia managed to monopolize cathedral prebends, following relatives one another between the 16th and 18th centuries, specially by means of the analysis of different ways to obtain resignation "in favorem" or coadjutory papal bulls

Nelson Novoa, James W., Being the Nação in the Eternal City. New Christian Lives in Sixteeenth-Century Rome

Review of the book: Nelson Novoa, James W., Being the Nação in the Eternal City. New Christian Lives in Sixteeenth-Century Rome. Portuguese Studies Review Monograph Series, vol. 2. Peterborough: Baywolf Press, 343 pp., 2014. ISBN: 9780921437529.FCT (Ref. SFRH/BPD/85917/2012). CIDEHUS UID/HIS/00057/2013 (POCI-01-0145-FEDER-007702), FCT/Portugal, COMPETE, FEDER, Portugal2020 and the R&D Project Ref. HAR2015-68577

Sotanas a la morisca y casullas a la chinesca: el gusto por lo exótico entre los eclesiásticos cordobeses (1556-1621)

The presence of exotica in early modern times at clergymen’s home, specially capitulars, is an ostentation symbol that reflects elite’s behavior. Besides, this is not well known in the case of members of local secular clergy. For its analysis we will focus on the city of Cordova during the reigns of Philip II and Philip III of Spain

Biographical dictionary of the Cathedral of Cordoba (i): the members of the chapter in early modern age

Esta publicación recoge la primera parte del estudio biográfico de un conjunto representativo de los miembros del cabildo de una catedral española, la de Córdoba, entre finales del siglo XV y los primeros años del XIX. Para ello, he optado por el formato de entradas simplificadas con los datos básicos sobre el origen, la filiación, los estudios y la carrera de varios cientos de eclesiásticos.This paper presents the first part of the biographical study of a representative number of the members of a Spanish cathedral chapter, that of Cordoba, between the last fifteenth century and the first years of the nineteenth century. To do that, I chose a format of simplified entries with basic information on the origin, parentage, studies and career of several hundred churchmen

Moorish cassocks and chinese chasubles: the liking for the exotic among Cordovan clergymen (1556-1621)

La presencia en época moderna de elementos exóticos en el hogar de los eclesiásticos, especialmente los capitulares, es un signo de ostentación que responde a los comportamientos de la élite. En el caso de los miembros del clero secular local, además, resulta poco conocida. Para su análisis nos centraremos en la ciudad de Córdoba durante los reinados de Felipe II y Felipe III.The presence of exotica in early modern times at clergymen’s home, specially capitulars, is an ostentation symbol that reflects elite’s behavior. Besides, this is not well known in the case of members of local secular clergy. For its analysis we will focus on the city of Cordova during the reigns of Philip II and Philip III of Spai

Purity of Blood and the Curial Market in Iberian Cathedrals

This article analyses the dynamics of accessing cathedral chapters with purity of blood statutes in the Iberian Peninsula, from a comparative perspective, and the interaction with the phenomenon of commodification of ecclesiastical benefices. This phenomenon created a Curial market that was open to any applicant with sufficient economic capacity, regardless of their ancestry. What was the result of the clash between the Iberian concept of purity and the commodified Roman reality?UID/HIS/00057/2013 (POCI-01-0145-FEDER-007702), FCT/Portugal, COMPETE, FEDER, Portugal2020. R&D Project HAR2015-68577 of the Government of Spain. FCT (Government of Portugal). Ref. SFRH/BPD/85917/2012