La procedencia social del clerosecular vizcaíno en la Edad Moderna

Cifuentes Pazos, José Manuel

Publication year:

2011

Publication place:

Donostia-San Sebastián

ISSN:

1136-6834

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Summary

In social terms, the secular clergy of Biscay in the Modern Period originated in the higher or oligarchical levels of the social structure of the manorial system; in particular the local oligarchies that consisted of noblemen of the lowest rank, wealthy farmers (especially in rural areas such as the plains region known as Tierra Llana), traders, merchants, scribes, military men, bureaucrats, sailors and, to a lesser extent, artisans (at least in the towns and cities).