Preventing Household Failure: Figures of Authority in Familial Corporate Bodies (The Portuguese Morgadio System from the Fourteenth to the Seventeenth Century)
Departing from the widespread importance in the Portuguese and Castilian territories, from the 14th to the 19th centuries, of the morgado (entail), a specific Iberian form to frame institutionally the organization of the corporate family, this article puts forward a specific understanding of the phe...
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| Julkaisussa: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/acrh, |
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| Aineistotyyppi: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Kieli: | Anglais |
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L’Atelier du Centre de recherches historiques
2020
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| Linkit: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Yhteenveto: | Departing from the widespread importance in the Portuguese and Castilian territories, from the 14th to the 19th centuries, of the morgado (entail), a specific Iberian form to frame institutionally the organization of the corporate family, this article puts forward a specific understanding of the phenomenon – one that considers the figure of authority supporting it, and which, in turn, came to be supported by it: the founder. The idea and the act of founding, the figure of the founder, the founder’s authority and credited capacity to rule the future, in premodern European culture, will be at the core of the questioning on the entail system’s logic. The perspective will be one of anthropological history, seeking to describe and understand the set of background conditions and elements of various nature, which at a certain point combined to allow an important change in social behavior towards heritage and family organization. The article begins with a characterization of the figure of the founder in its main aspects, and then proceeds to a brief discussion of the ways through which the model was transmitted and incorporated by the agents involved, but also of the limits which it produced. The second part of this article offers a preliminary analysis of the origins and functions of these reference elements, their contextual usage by engaged agents in late medieval Portugal, and the social-cultural responses thus constructed. |
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