The Spanish Monarchy in a Polycentric Perspective

Yasmina Rocio	 Ben Yessef Garfia

doi:10.6093/978-88-6887-160-4

The Spanish Monarchy in a Polycentric Perspective: networks, conflicts, negotiations between local scale and imperial spaces (16th-17th centuries)

Authors

Yasmina Rocio Ben Yessef Garfia

University of Naples Federico II

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6931-5268

DOI: https://doi.org/10.6093/978-88-6887-160-4

Keywords:

Hispanic Monarchy, Polycentrism, Merchant Networks, Negotiation, Conflict

Synopsis

Publisher: FedOA - Federico II University Press

Series: Clio. Essays in History, Archaeology and Art History

Pages: 189

Language: Italian

NBN: http://nbn.depositolegale.it/urn:nbn:it:unina-29012

Abstract: This volume addresses one of the most debated topics in the historiography of the Spanish Monarchy in the Early Modern Age: its political nature. It examines the most interesting aspects of the Hispanic polycentric model, which presents the Monarchy as a political entity composed of several interconnected units that not only interacted with the king, but also with each other. These connections contributed to the modulation of Court politics and the generation of new forms of collaboration, competition and negotiation. The analysis of four case studies, involving individuals, families and power groups that managed to move within or on the margins of institutional channels, between the Italian and Iberian territories of the Monarchy, allows us to interpret this political entity as something more than the simple juxtaposition of kingdoms under a single king. The result was a State capable of strengthening itself also through the interactions that took place between the local and global spheres thanks to the presence of an articulated system of networks.

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Author Biography

Yasmina Rocio Ben Yessef Garfia, University of Naples Federico II

Yasmina Rocío Ben Yessef Garfia is a lecturer in Early Modern History and research fellow at the University of Naples Federico II. Her research concerns mercantile networks and relations between Genoa and Spain in the 16th and 17th centuries. He is currently working on the study of the narrative and memory of natural disasters in Spanish America in the Early Modern Age. She has published several essays in international volumes and journals and is the author of the monograph Los Serra entre la República de Génova y la Monarquía Hispánica. Servicio, redes y espacios de identidad (1576 ca.-1650 ca.), Madrid, CSIC, 2022.