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Blood, Land and Power IBERIAN AND LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES Blood, Land and Power Blood Land and Power.indd 1 26/03/21 11:21 AM Series Editors Professor David George (Swansea University) Professor Paul Garner (University of Leeds) Editorial Board Samuel Amago (University of Virginia) Roger Bartra (Universidad Autónoma de México) Paul Castro (University of Glasgow) Richard Cleminson (University of Leeds) Catherine Davies (University of London) Luisa-Elena Delgado (University of Illinois) Maria Delgado (Central School of Speech and Drama, London) Will Fowler (University of St Andrews) David Gies (University of Virginia) Gareth Walters (Swansea University) Duncan Wheeler (University of Leeds) Other titles in the series Fantastic Short Stories by Women Authors from Spain and Latin America: A Critical Anthology Patricia Gracía and Teresa López-Pellisa Carmen Martín Gaite: Poetics, Visual Elements and Space Ester Bautista Botello The Spanish Anarchists of Northern Australia: Revolution in the Sugar Cane Fields Robert Mason Paulo Emilio Salles Gomes: On Brazil and Global Cinema Maite Conde and Stephanie Dennison The Darkening Nation: Race, Neoliberalism and Crisis in Argentina Ignacio Aguiló Catalan Culture: Experimentation, creative imagination and the relationship with Spain Lloyd Hughes Davies, J. B. Hall and D. Gareth Walters Madness and Irrationality in Spanish and Latin American Literature and Culture Lloyd Hughes Davies Blood Land and Power.indd 2 26/03/21 11:21 AM IBERIAN AND LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES Blood, Land and Power The Rise and Fall of the Spanish Nobility and Lineages in the Early Modern Period MANUEL PEREZ-GARCIA UNIVERSITY OF WALES PRESS 2021 Blood Land and Power.indd 3 26/03/21 11:21 AM This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution- NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Licence. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/ licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, PO Box 1866, Mountain View, CA 94042, USA www.uwp.co.uk British Library CIP A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. ISBN 978-1-78683-710-3 e-ISBN 978-1-78683-711-0 The right of Manuel Perez-Garcia to be identified as author of this work has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 79 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. Blood, Land and Power is available as an open access publication DOI 10.16922/bloodlandpower This research has been sponsored and financially supported from the GECEM (Global Encounters between China and Europe: Trade Networks, Consumption and Cultural Exchanges in Macau and Marseille, 1680-1840) Project hosted by the University Pablo de Olavide, UPO (Seville, Spain), www.gecem.eu. The GECEM Project is funded by the ERC (European Research Council)-Starting Grant, under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme, ref. 679371. The Principal Investigator is Professor Manuel Perez-Garcia (Distinguished Researcher at UPO). Cover image: Francisco Pradilla Ortiz, The Capitulation of Granada (1882), oil on canvas, coll. Senado de España, Madrid; by permission, Heritage Image Partnership Ltd / Alamy Stock Photo. Typeset by Geethik Technologies The publisher has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of URLs for any external or third-party internet websites referred to in this book, and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate. Blood Land and Power Imprint.indd 4 30/09/20 6:53 PM To my father Manuel Pérez García who has set an outstanding example of perseverance, dedication, love, and passion to his work in the medical profession. His altruistic and generous service to the care of the community deserves full recognition, being an example to follow for the education and direction of the family. Without your support and your example of commitment and enthusiasm to your work, I would never have been able to write this book. The family is the stronghold to keep the values, ethics and unity of our society. Blood Land and Power.indd 5 26/03/21 11:21 AM This page is deliberately blank Blood Land and Power.indd 6 26/03/21 11:21 AM Contents Series Editors’ Foreword ix Acknowledgements xi List of Figures, Graphs and Tables xv Foreword by J. B. Owens xxi Introduction 1 1 Lineage, Glory and Honour in the Late Middle Ages: Conquest and Consolidation of Economic Power 7 2 Honour and Purity of Blood 40 3 Building a Social Network through Political, Social and Institutional ties 105 4 Family and Entailed Estate (Mayorazgo): First-Borns as Keepers of the Family’s Economic Power 164 Conclusions 221 Bibliography 228 Notes 255 Appendix 298 Index 327 Blood Land and Power.indd 7 26/03/21 11:21 AM This page is deliberately blank Blood Land and Power.indd 6 26/03/21 11:21 AM Series Editors’ Foreword Over recent decades the traditional ‘languages and literatures’ model in Spanish departments in universities in the United Kingdom has been superseded by a contextual, interdisciplinary and ‘area studies’ approach to the study of the culture, history, society and politics of the Hispanic and Lusophone worlds – cate- gories that extend far beyond the confines of the Iberian Peninsula, not only in Latin America but also to Spanish-speaking and Lusophone Africa. In response to these dynamic trends in research priorities and curriculum development, this series is designed to present both disciplinary and interdisciplinary research within the general field of Iberian and Latin American Studies, particularly studies that explore all aspects of Cultural Production (inter alia literature, film, music, dance, sport) in Spanish, Portuguese, Basque, Catalan, Galician and indigenous languages of Latin America. The series also aims to publish research in the History and Politics of the Hispanic and Lusophone worlds, at the level of both the region and the nation-state, as well as on Cultural Studies that explore the shifting terrains of gender, sexual, racial and postcolonial identi- ties in those same regions. Blood Land and Power.indd 9 26/03/21 11:21 AM This page is deliberately blank Blood Land and Power.indd 6 26/03/21 11:21 AM Acknowledgements This book is the result of the academic actions and activities of the GECEM (Global Encounters between China and Europe: Trade Networks, Consumption and Cultural Exchanges in Macau and Marseille, 1680– 1840, www.gecem.eu) Project. The workshops and academic forums in which I have participated since GECEM started in June 2016, in Tokyo, Beijing, Boston, Shanghai, Oxford, Paris, Vancouver, Seville, Mexico City, Guadalajara, San José (Costa Rica) and Murcia have served to obtain feedback from outstanding scholars and improve upon the ideas and early drafts of this book. I wish to acknowledge the financial support of the European Research Council (ERC)-Starting Grant, under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme, at the Pablo de Olavide University (UPO) in Seville (Spain), which acts as European host for GECEM. The academic collaboration with my colleague and friend Professor Lucio de Sousa (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies) has helped and encouraged me to undertake my career as a historian in China and in the 2011 founding of the Global History Network in China (GHN) in Beijing, www.globalhistorynetwork.com. We have jointly established a permanent academic forum of discussion and publications through GHN to promote knowledge and understanding of the still unknown East Asian world and culture, and the exchanges with Europe and the Western world. Expanding the GHN through organised academic meetings in China, Europe, and the Americas has helped us to invigorate the field of global history and early modern history of western and eastern regions. Obtaining my current European Research Council (ERC)-Starting Grant in the autumn of 2015 has made it possible to further this mission, which has crystallised in the publi- cation of this book by the University of Wales Press. Blood Land and Power.indd 11 26/03/21 11:21 AM xii Acknowledgements I am grateful to academic institutions and partners of GECEM and GHN such as Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, the Beijing Center for Chinese Studies at the University of International Business and Economics (Beijing, China), the Macau Ricci Institute at the University of Saint Joseph (Macau), the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Cambridge, the Centre for Global History at the University of Oxford, the Center of Global History and European Studies at Pittsburgh University, the Centre of Global History at the University of Warwick, the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM), the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (Paris, France), the European University Institute (Florence, Italy), the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, and the Faculty of Economics and Business at the Universidad de Murcia. I specially want to thank GECEM Project team members Bartolomé Yun-Casalilla, Marisol Vidales Bernal, Omar Svriz, Manuel Díaz Ordoñez, Nadia Fernández de Pinedo Echeverria, María Jesús Milán Agudo, Rocío Moreno Cabanillas, Felix Muñoz, Jin Lei, Wang Li and Guimel Hernández. I am grateful to comments and suggestions made by Jack Owens, Jesus Cruz, Jean-Pierre Dedieu, Mafalda Soares da Cunha, Luis Jauregui, Richard von Glahn, Bartolomé Yun-Casalilla, Anne McCants, Shigeru Akita, Gakusho Nakajima, Mihoko Oka, Carlos Marichal, Dennis Flynn, Patrick O’Brien, Pat Manning, Joe P. McDermott, Leonard Blusse, François Gipouloux, Debin Ma, Leonor Diaz de Seabra and Antonio Ibarra. I would also like to thank the PAIDI group HUM-1000 Historia de la Globalización: Violencia, Negociación e Interculturalidad at Area de Historia Moderna (UPO), of which I am a member. The Principal Investigator of the PAIDI group is Igor Pérez Tostado, funded by Junta de Andalucía (Seville, Spain). Igor Pérez, Bethany Aram and Fernando Ramos deserve a special word of gratitude for their support and help.
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