Description: Liberty in Absolutist Spain : The Habsburg Sale of Towns, 1, Paperback by Nader, Helen, ISBN 0801847311, ISBN-13 9780801847318, Like New Used, Free P&P in the UK
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 : The Habsburg Sale of Towns, 1516-17
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
