Poseedores de títulos e grandezasla imagen de la nobleza en los territorios de Murcia

Résumé

This doctoral thesis studies the image that projects the nobility in the landscape of the territory of Murcia. After the Reconquest, the nobility occupied a fundamental role in the development of the society of the Modern Age. Palaces, stately homes, patronage chapels, tower-houses, farmhouses and blazons lined a city, orchard and countryside that crossed its authentic golden age. Streets, squares, sidewalks and roads became co-stars tinted by the baroque visual culture of noble influence that had its power elements in each of them. Murcia privileged and citizens lived for centuries in a territory of great noble identity, comparable to other Spanish capitals. The objectives of this study are to analyze the appearance of the Murcian nobility, the behavior of the nobility in the public space and in the private environment, the eloquence of its image, the typology and location of its homes, the recreation of the different spaces urban and rural. This thesis has deepened in the behavior of the nobility in the religious space, from the foundations to the internal nexus that relates religiosity and noble image, the foundation of chapels, rights and obligations of the owners, work of artistic patronage in the movable heritage and finally, the choice of the burial place. Parishes, convents and monasteries played an essential role in Baroque Murcia, projecting in each space the ancestry of their lineage. Finally, the garden and the countryside have been the two spaces that respond to economic capacity, a power that was reflected in tower houses, large farms, farmhouses and day laborers. The methodology has focused on three strong pillars: an exhaustive field work, the documentary and bibliographic emptying and the systematic elaboration of routes, plans and catalogs that have allowed to recreate that landscape that disappeared due to ignorance, interest and neglect. It can be concluded by saying that Murcia had two hundreds of emblazoned stately homes among its streets, destroyed in its 90%; contribution that manages to complete the image of the city of Murcia so far incomplete. It can also be said that in the rural environment the nobility accumulated more than two hundred properties represented in tower-houses and farmhouses, of which very few have survived to this day. In the religious space, the nobility covered temples with movable artistic heritage and founded more than a hundred chapels in all the temples of Murcia, the Cathedral and the convents of mendicant orders being the protagonists, where the most intimate family identity was mixed with public religiosity , turning the sacred space into a great scene of influences.