The Bourbon Monarchy and the Señorío of Biscay in the second half of th XVIIIth Century: Center against periphery?

Authors

  • Fernando Martínez Rueda Universidad del País Vasco

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17811/hc.v0i14.364

Keywords:

Monarchy, Señorío of Biscay, center-periphery relationship, clientelism and patronage, provincial laws (fueros)

Abstract

The traditional political and institutional historiography has described the relationship between the Basque Provinces and the Bourbon Monarchy of the 18th Century as a continuous conflict between the central power and the periphery. In the last decades that interpretation has been deeply revised by the constitutional historiography and by the new social history. Taking those new historiographical approaches as starting-point, this paper analyses the relationship between the Señorío of Biscay and the Crown during the second half of the XVIII Century from a new viewpoint: the study of the institutional officials (Agente and Deputy at the court) and the relational network (patrons of the Señorío of Biscay at the administration of the Monarchy) that mediated between the provincial elite and the Monarchy.

Enviado el (Submission Date): 23/04/2013

Aceptado el (Acceptance Date): 5/05/2013

Author Biography

Fernando Martínez Rueda, Universidad del País Vasco

Profesor titular del departamento de Historia Contemporánea de la Universidad del País Vasco.
Historia Constitucional

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Published

2013-06-20

Issue

No. 14 (2013): Historia Constitucional N. 14 (2013)

Section

Spain: XVIIIth-XXth Centuries

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