Resistance in the Iberian Worlds from the Fifteenth to the Eighteenth Century
Dissent and Disobedience from Within
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Resistance in the Iberian Worlds from the Fifteenth to the Eighteenth Century
Dissent and Disobedience from Within
About this book
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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Front Matter
- Introduction
- Part I. Background: The Medieval Roots of Early Modern Resistance
- Part II. Exchanges: Communities and Resistance, From the Urban Centers to the Iberian Borderlands. Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries
- Part III. Roles: The Shaping of Identities Through Resistance in the Seventeenth Century
- Part IV. Dynamics: Resisting Iberian Imperialism Through the Eighteenth-Century Reforms
- Part VI. Afterword
- Correction to: The Global Impact of the Early Modern Thomistic Revolution and the Scholastic Grammars of Daily Resistance Within Institutions
- Back Matter