Description: Liberty in Absolutist Spain Please note: this item is printed on demand and will take extra time before it can be dispatched to you (up to 20 working days). The Habsburg Sale of Towns, 1516-1700. 1, 108th Series, 1990 Author(s): Helen Nader Format: Paperback Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press, United States Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press ISBN-13: 9780801847318, 978-0801847318 Synopsis Throughout early modern Europe, one of the most extraordinary royal fund-raising schemes was the seizure and sale of church property to finance foreign wars. The monarchs of Habsburg Spain extended these seizures to municipal property and used the revenue to maintain their empire. They sold charters of autonomy to hundreds of villages, thus converting them into towns, and sold towns to private buyers, thus increasing the number of seigniorial lords. In Hapsburg Spain, therefore, absolutism did not mean centralization. Rather, the kings invoked their absolute power to decentralize authority and allow their subjects a surprising degree of autonomy.
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Book Title: Liberty in Absolutist Spain
Number of Pages: 328 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Liberty in Absolutist Spain: the Habsburg Sale of Towns, 1516-1700. 1, 108th Series, 1990
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication Year: 1993
Subject: History
Item Height: 229 mm
Item Weight: 454 g
Type: Textbook
Author: Helen Nader
Series: The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science
Item Width: 152 mm
Format: Paperback
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