De lo cuantitativo a lo cualitativo. Los pleitos de hidalguía y la tratadística jurídica. 1500-1700

Abstract

This article intends to analyse the challenges about the method of access to noble status in modern Castile. To do so, firstly we take quantitative analyses of Pleitos de hidalguia preserved in the Chancillería de Granada contrasting them with those of Chancilleria Valladolid. Secondly we focused on the legal debate on evidences during hidalguía process. The prevalence of oral testimony over documents cleared the path of the desired social recognition to a certain type of families, through a negotiation of the meaning of the hidalguia.

http://dx.doi.org/10.15304/ohm.24.1996