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Liberty in Absolutist Spain - The Habsburg Sale of Towns, 1516-1700. 1, 108th Series, 1990 (Paperback, New Ed)
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Liberty in Absolutist Spain - The Habsburg Sale of Towns, 1516-1700. 1, 108th Series, 1990 (Paperback, New Ed)
Series: The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science
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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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