Resistance in the Iberian Worlds from the Fifteenth to the Eighteenth Century

Dissent and Disobedience from Within
2024
ISBN: 978-3-031-63405-5
Verlag: Springer Nature Switzerland

Buch, Englisch, 421 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 681 g

This book highlights the broad scope and span of resistance as a contentious practice in the early modern Iberian world. In this context, from the late Middle Ages onwards, resistance, rooted in the political and legal language of the ‘old regime’ that provided agents with legitimacy and resources for their actions, occurred mainly within the established jurisdictional system. These resources for litigation and demand made resistance a widespread kind of contesting practice related to wider  protests.

The authors assess the wide array of actions developed by individuals and communities to preserve their rights and identities, demonstrating how the Portuguese and Hispanic polities and their colonial possessions experienced resistance from below over a long period of change that marked the rise of more complex communities and institutional systems. This book offers a comprehensive overview of the variety of forms and expressions of resistance developed in different social, cultural, and territorial contexts, thus shedding additional light on the relationship between order and conflict within early modern European empires.

Chapter 3 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sánchez León, Pablo

Herreros Cleret de Langavant, Benita

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kolonialgeschichte, Geschichte des Imperialismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsgeschichte, Recht der Antike

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: Resistance in the Early Modern Iberian Empires: Historicizing an Entangled, Contentious Social Practice.- Part I: Background: The Medieval Roots of Early Modern Resistance- Chapter 2: Disobedience, Resistance and Restoration of the Social Order in Castile and Leon in the Middle Ages: Customary Practices in the Face of Power.- Chapter 3: The Global Impact of the Early Modern Thomistic  and the Scholastic Grammars of Daily Resistance within Institutions.- Part II. Exchanges: Communities and Resistance from the Urban Centers to the Iberian Borderlands in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries.- Chapter 4: The Unending Conquest: Indigenous Resistance in the Chilean Borders, 1553-1604.- Chapter 5: The Cry for Freedom: Between Resistance and Political Action in Castile at the End of the Middle Ages, 1450-1520.- Chapter 6: Vernacular Political Practices and Everyday Forms of Resistance: Frontier Communities in the Spanish-Portuguese Borderlands during the Seventeenth Century.- Chapter 7: Resistance, Opposition and Accommodation to the Portuguese in Sixteenth-century Asia.- Part III. Roles: The Shaping of Identities through Resistance in the Seventeenth Century.- Chapter 8: The Triumph of Temperance: Power, Negotiation and Resistance in Royal Entries in Portugal during the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries.- Chapter 9: Male Violence and Female Resistance in the Sacrament of Penance: Accounts Before the Inquisitorial Tribunals in Colonial America during the Seventeenth Century.- Chapter 10: Urban Outcasts Facing Adversity: A Plebeian Culture of Resistance and Resilience in Seventeenth-century Spain.- Chapter 11: Missionary Villages as Spaces of Resistance.- Chapter 12: We Have Not Been Tributaries: Peru’s Black Community, Historical Memory, and Resistance.- Part IV. Dynamics: Resisting Iberian Imperialism through the Eighteenth-century Reforms.- Chapter 13: Policy and Indigenous Policies in the Age of Enlightenment: Agreements and Resistance Between Assimilationist Ideals and the Preservation of Differences.- Chapter 14: Cross-cultural Interactions, Indigenous Agency and Resistance in the Borderlands of the Upper Paraguay Basin.- Chapter 15: Between Rebellion and Resistance: Guild Government, Ancient Liberty and Plebeian Estate in the Catalonia of the.- Chapter 16: Political Conflict in the Indigenous and Urban Worlds in the Late Colonial Andes.- Chapter 17: Precarious Freedoms: Slaves in Cuba between the Late Eighteenth and the Early Nineteenth Centuries.- Chapter 18: Everyday Resistance in Late Colonial Buenos Aires: A View From Judicial Sources.- Part V. Afterword.- Chapter 19: Final Thoughts on Entangled Resistances from the Early Modern Iberian Empires.

Über Autor(innen)

Pablo Sánchez León is a researcher at the CHAM - Centro de Humanidades at Universidad NOVA de Lisboa in Portugal. His research revolves around social conflicts in the Spanish monarchy from the late Middle Ages through the early modern period in comparative perspective.

Benita Herreros Cleret de Langavant is a Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Cantabria in Spain. Her research delves into cross-cultural interactions and Indigenous resistance in the frontiers of the Iberian empires, focusing on northern Paraguay, Mato Grosso, and the Chaco regions.