Family, Statement and Institution: The Secular Clergy in the Kingdom of Cordova in the Mid-Eighteenth Century. The Case of Lucena

Abstract

This contribution is part of a larger project currently being developed, focusing on the study of family structure, economic, social and institutional secular clergy of the kingdom of Cordova through the Ecclesiastic Books, Haciendas Families Books and Ecclesiastical cadastre of the Marquis of Ensenada. This text is just a preview of that through, in particular of the most important center of Cordova Subbaetic by the number of clergy and church institutions as it was during the old Regime Lucena, and only their families in church books. Well-known source of the responses emanating from that particular survey magna Bourbon with the great servant of Fernando VI sought the wealth of his subjects of the crown of Castile to apply the Single Tax, this documentary is, however, largely untapped from the triple perspective here will be-hence the interest in this development, real contribution, then, modernist historiography, and to be viewed, analyzed and understood in the context of a state increasingly need to know, monitor and control their subjects to rule, as it was, in short, illustrated. Basic methodology for obtaining our threefold purpose indicated is the quantification and subsequent statistical system is indispensable in this case, to fully understand the text it supports. Finally, a second phase focused on the analysis of the books of ecclesiastical estates now rounded results are presented, as defined by the economic situation of the group examined.

Keywords

• castilla
• ilustración
• clero secular
• familia
• orden social
• institución