TRANSMISSION STRATEGIES IN HIGHER CLERGY OF CASTILE DURING THE ANCIEN RÉGIME. THE PREBENDARIES OF MURCIA IN EIGHTEENTH CENTURY Estrategias de transmisión del alto clero secular en Castilla durante el Antiguo Régimen. Los prebendados de Murcia en el siglo XVIII

The aim is to investigate the ways in which the higher clergy legated his property in the final years of the Ancien Regime; for it, the example of the prebendaries of the Cathedral of Murcia has been taken. Although ecclesiastical literature indicated that properties of the clergymen should be sent...

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Main Author: Antonio Irigoyen López
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca 2012-03-01
Series:Studia Historica: Historia Moderna
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Online Access:http://campus.usal.es/~revistas_trabajo/index.php/Studia_Historica/article/view/9110
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Summary:The aim is to investigate the ways in which the higher clergy legated his property in the final years of the Ancien Regime; for it, the example of the prebendaries of the Cathedral of Murcia has been taken. Although ecclesiastical literature indicated that properties of the clergymen should be sent to the poor and the Church, the family will be the great-favoured because prebendaries felt very pressured by the obligations that emerged from kinship<br>Se pretende investigar sobre las formas en que el alto clero transmitía sus bienes en los años finales del Antiguo Régimen; para ello, se ha tomado el ejemplo de los prebendados de la catedral de Murcia. A pesar de que la literatura eclesiástica propugnaba que los bienes del clero debían destinarse a los pobres y a la Iglesia, será la familia la gran beneficiada porque los prebendados se sentían muy presionados por los compromisos que nacían del parentesco.
ISSN:0213-2079