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

by HelenNader (Author)

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  1993

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  This text examines how the monarchs of Habsburg Spain extended seizures of church property 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.